The paper focused on the human capital development capacity of complex interactive institutional networks. Network principles were adopted to seek the underlying conditions that determine the human capital development of institutions as well as its capacity to sustain personnel development within competitively dense networks. The research focused on existing management structures hinged on the assumption that it influenced policy development, implementation, and worker engagements intending to increase institutional performance within the competitive space. Using some core attributes, a network was developed to capture the interaction between employees within an institution as well as their comparative impact on the general banking system of a developing economy. Using specific network measures, we deduced the institutional network was efficient in human capital development, and also efficiency in competitive networks is inversely proportional to density. Multi-national Banks have higher potentials of human capital development in a highly competitive industry compared to indigenous banks. Again connectivity dynamics affect human capital development in financial networks in developing countries.
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Dankyi, A. B. , Kong, Y. , Peprah, P. A. , Antoinette, A. A. and Ankomah-Asare, E. T. (2020). The Complexities of Employee and Institutional Interactions for Human Capital Development: Evidence from Banking Network of Ghana
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