Human Potential Accounting and its partners are continually looking for ways in which to further research in the Human Capital and Behavioural risk space. HPA endeavours to share this information with others in the hope to contribute toward a moving body of research aiding the repositioning of HR to the centre of the organisation. This information covers many different domains including case studies, conceptual pieces and reviews.

Case Studies

1. What to Do When People are Your Most Important Asset
   Description of three case studies from Mcbassi & company, of organizations that have used measurement to determine the link between their work and learning environment and their most important outcomes. Furthermore how this information allows organizations to focus their efforts and resources on only those factors that make the biggest difference in determining success or failure.
2. Searching for the Human Capital Drivers of Process Safety.
   Summary of a joint initiative with PlantSuccess to identify the people-related factors most closely linked to safety and other key outcomes in manufacturing plants.
3. Leadership and Law Firm Success: A Statistical Analysis.
   Summary of results of an analysis of what human capital factors are most closely associated with law firms' success (profitability, employee retention, business development, etc.)

Concept Work

1. Book review of “The Value Motive;
   The only alternative to the profit motive” by Paul Kearns
2. Applying Six Sigma Techniques to Human Capital Management.
   Describes how to apply techniques from six sigma to existing tools (like the employee survey) in order to identify with precision the unique people-related drivers of an organization’s key outcomes
3. Harvard Business Review, "Maximizing Your Return on People", March 2007.
   Discusses how new tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals.

Research in Progress

1. The history of human capital management.
   Summary of the use and development of Human Capital Management over the last 20 years. Available to download December 2008
2. Behavioural Risk explored and reviewed.
   Offers a summary of the most prevalent and destructive behavioural risks currently threaten today’s organisation. Available to download January 2008.
3. Book Review of “Understanding psychological contracts at work;
   A critical evaluation of theory and research” by Neil Conway and Rob B.Briner