Human capital: Its contributions to intellectual development in university health research units

Abstract

Human capital is made up of what people know and their ability to learn and share that knowledge with others. The objective of the present work is to characterize the human capital in the research units of the health nucleus of the University of Zulia, Venezuela. Its theoretical support is in Bueno, et al. (2011); Macías and Aguilera (2012); Rivero and Dabos (2017); Erazo (2021); among others. Regarding the methodology, the applied paradigm was positivist, with an inductive method, a qualitative-quantitative approach, analytical and with a non-experimental field design. For data collection, a questionnaire was applied to the directors of each of the research units to be addressed; the analysis was done through descriptive statistics and variances of one factor. The results obtained allowed us to conclude that in human capital the skills of the collaborators stand out, while the values and attitudes are deficient, with substantial changes being necessary in their form of management so that the personnel have the necessary motivation to carry out their activities