We are not human resources or human capital. We are human beings.

I think you know how much I dislike the term "human Resources" - its only marginally better than that awful term "human capital". I have written about it before.

I do hope you realise that it was Catbert, Dilbert's evil feline Human Resources director, who invented the term human capital back in 2002 :-)



Henry Mintzberg sums it up very nicely in this article The Problem Is Enterprise.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Credit: The Problem Is Enterprise, Not Economics by Henry Mintzberg