The Impact of Human Capital Productivity on Cash Holdings: A Test of Stakeholders Theory

Studies in the field of cash management have been conducted mainly in the framework of theories such as exchange theory, hierarchy and free cash flow. Analysts and Users of financial statements consider cash holding level as the economic health of firms. The purpose of this paper is to add another theory to cash management theories based on the concepts of stakeholder theory.According to stakeholder theory, firm's responsibility to employees and improving their productivity can affect company's financial policies, including cash holdings. This study is an applied research in terms of purpose and also in terms of the nature of a descriptive and correlation research .The research period is from 2010 to 2018. The findings of this paper show that human capital productivity has a positive and significant relationship with the level of cash holdings, That is, by increasing productivity at the level of manpower, companies are more inclined to hold cash.The empirical results concerning the correlation between cash holdings and productivity provide a reference for firms’ cash management policies.