appropriate elements of its potential allowing to see that the investment pattern in
human capital fully corresponds to elements of human potential.
Human capital is the value form of realizing its own content – human potential of
society. The interrelation of the form and content in the development of human
resources is of dialectical nature: problems and contradictions arising in one socio-
economic phenomenon produce similar trends in another one. Thus, processes
observed in the dynamics of human capital determine particularities and conditions for
the reproduction of human potential of society, including labor and intellectual ones.
At the same time, new requirements imposed on the quality of human potential dictate
changing the investment pattern in human capital.
Table 1 Structure of investments in human capital and constituent elements
of human potential (compiled according to the papers [5; 6; 7; 8])
№
Structure of human capital
Elements of human potential
1
Education, in-service training
Educational potential, including that of
experience
2
Health protection, maintenance of the
demographic basis of society
Demographic potential, family potential
3
Ecology and health lifestyle
Physical potential (health potential), psycho-
emotional potential
4
Motivation to improve the quality of labor,
personal values and approaches to life
Motivational potential, behavioral potential
5
Search for information
Information potential
6
Fundamental scientific developments
Scientific and intellectual potential
7
Culture and leisure
Cultural potential
8
Migration
Possibilities for changing the place of
residence, sphere of activities, and profession
without prejudice to the national labor potential
Paying attention to Table 2, which presents the characteristics of labor potential
by phases of the reproduction process and levels of the subjectivization, it should be
noted that it is labor potential that is the most important subsystem of human potential,
since it determines: a) the labor behavior of subjects in all phases of the reproduction
process (production, distribution, and exchange, including market and consumption);
b) the level of material well-being of an employee and his family; c) a free choice or a
choice forced by a subject as concerns the model reproducing one’s own personal
qualities; d) formation of a certain socionic personality type, etc. It is obvious that labor
potential as part of human potential has a decisive influence on social potential,
spiritual and cultural, as well as psycho-emotional ones.
This formulation of the problem concerning the comprehensive study of the
current state and dynamics of human capital and potential is based on the transition
from the empirical aspect (mainly associated with the analysis of quantitative changes)
to the methodological (essential) aspect of research, which presumes: firstly, the
structuring of intra-system processes that occur in the dynamics of human capital and
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