Topic: Human Capital & Organizational Behavior

Quick Take: The Executive Summary

The Problem: 95% of private-sector companies fail within 42 months in Jamaica. This is a clear indicator of systemic HCM strategy failure.

The Insight: Profitability is not just driven by revenue; it is driven by the integration of human capital practices into the core business framework.

The Mandate: Leaders must move HCM from a ‘support function’ to a primary driver of organizational performance.

Training budgets are easy to spend and hard to justify. This commentary reframes workforce development around competence assurance — tracking capability, behavioural change, and performance so learning translates into results.