Paper Title
Human Capital and Competitiveness of IT Firms
Abstract
The modern globalized competitive market has compelled the firms to leverage on the workforce as a competitive
weapon. A strategy for improving workforce productivity to derive higher value for the firms has become an important task
for the organizations. The explosive pickup of the IT industry in the late 1990s has brought many challenges and
opportunities to the knowledge industry. The Challenge was in terms of managing the human capital across the firms at
different levels. The employee cost incurred in the Software industry has been on the rise. This has become an important
factor in influencing the degree of competitiveness as every firm has been offering lots of benefits to its employees in terms
of incentives and other measures to upgrade their skills so that they become competitive to contribute towards the
organizational success. Amidst the dynamism of demographic dividend of India, the paper focuses on finding the effects of
demographic and other factors, training and development programs, etc. on employee’s competitiveness in software
industry.
Keywords - ITeS, IT, Human Capital, Competitiveness and Salary.