Human capital: updating of the notion and structural components

In the modern context the human capital, the role of the required level of professional competences of the human capital becomes more and more important. Such circumstance confirms the applicability of the topic of this article. Its main goal are comprehensive studies of existing determinations of the human capital, the updating of this notion and of structural components by analysis results. As theoretic basis for these studies were selected works of foreign and national economists, substantiating their determinations of such notions as human capital and its structural components. Methods of studies were based on the comprehensive analysis of given determinations, allowing to reveal the correspondence or non-correspondence of studied determinations of such notion as human capital with modern terms of the organization of production processes at enterprises. As a result of the performed research was detailed such notion as human capital and were determined its structural components in the context of production activities of enterprises. Besides that was substantiated the incorporation of new structural components, allowing to make such notion more adequate with modern realities of the development of economics. Obtained results can be applied in practical activities of enterprises from all industrial branches as theoretic basis for the formation of the human capital and for the upgrading of the quality of its professional competences.