HR Portals and HR Metrics for Intellectual Capital Development

Dino Ruta

2007

Abstract

Intellectual capital is nowadays considered a key issue when analyzing critical determinants to company performance. It represents one of the main and difficult to imitate source for sustainable competitive advantage and it helps organizations, which can create, maintain, measure and leverage it, generate a superior performance. Companies, according to their strategic needs, generate a unique mix of human, social and organizational capital and exploit it to achieve their strategy. This paper intends to explore how information technology, and in particular HR portals, could help the organization to really be able to create a superior competitive advantage by leveraging its intangible assets coherently with its strategy. In addition, the paper provides a deep analysis of HR portals implementation benefits, focusing on their contribute at measuring and aligning intellectual capital to company strategy.

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Ruta D. (2007). HR Portals and HR Metrics for Intellectual Capital Development . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-02-9, pages 85-98. DOI: 10.5220/0002432200850098


in Bibtex Style

@conference{hris07,
author={Dino Ruta},
title={HR Portals and HR Metrics for Intellectual Capital Development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={85-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002432200850098},
isbn={978-989-8111-02-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems - Volume 1: HRIS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - HR Portals and HR Metrics for Intellectual Capital Development
SN - 978-989-8111-02-9
AU - Ruta D.
PY - 2007
SP - 85
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0002432200850098