what is human capital risk 
human capital risk refers to the gap between the human capital requirements of a company or organization and the existing human capital of its workforce this gap can lead a company towards inefficiencies inability to achieve its goals a poor reputation fraud financial loss and eventual closure to reduce and eliminate human capital risk an organization should train foster and support its workforce the bottom linehuman capital refers to the economic value of a worker s abilities and skills companies can enhance their human capital through recruitment or training as well as by implementing management techniques that optimize the productivity of their existing workers maintaining and improving the value of human capital is usually the role of a company s hr department 