Investing in resilient human capital: productivity and competitiveness outcomes in intermediate manufacturing

Abstract

In organizations, quality of life is intrinsically related to the current worldview, focused on the search for resilient collaborators, in the face of a complex, changing and fast world, which has led human beings to seek a transformation that allows them to subsist and evolve in any context. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the variables of investment in human capital and their influence on the competitiveness and productivity of the Honduran intermediate manufacturing industry, for which a relational study and a sample of 409 elements were used. In this study, applying an instrument validated by an expert jury and contrasting the pre-experimental hypothesis, applying the Spearman's Rho and Chi-square statistical tests to determine the influence between the previous variables for a value of p<0.05. Obtaining as a result that the relationship between both variables is then significant, confirming the formulated hypothesis, therefore human capital is related to the levels of productivity and competitiveness in the intermediate manufacturing industry of Honduras.