Intuitively it makes sense (to me at least) that investing in staff skills, knowledge, training and qualifications is not only a good investment socially, but also financially. After all, each person will be responsible for a huge number of tasks and decisions during even a short stay with an employer; if investing in improving that person improves the speed, quality, appropriateness or overall cost of even a few of those tasks and decisions, the benefits to the employer could be enormous.

So it’s nice to see that a financial study has agreed with this understanding.

KnowledgeAdvisors and Bassi Investments’ Human Capital Measurement Portfolio Outperforms S&P 500 by 15 Percent