In this view, human capital is treated as an accumulative resource that benefits the organization like any other business asset, providing competitive advantage through a transformation of the unique capabilities of individual employees to superior organizational performance.

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Misbah's calmness extends to his batting, and the accumulative style he characterizes has come to dominate the current line-up, giving it a solidity quite at odds with the stereotype of Pakistani batsmen as risk-taking run-plunderers whose strokeplay is as impetuous as it is thrilling.

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With Luke Wright he cleverly dismantled the West Indian bowling attack in their partnership of 95 in only 56 balls, while his invaluable 45 against his old countrymen was more of an accumulative innings in which he manoeuvred the ball into gaps and ran busily between the wickets.

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