In the modern business world, human capital plays a pivotal role in promoting sustainable business and organizational growth. Through employee performance, productivity is enhanced leading to profitability. In this case, private institutions of higher learning in Mozambique are not an exception. With this in picture, it is of no doubt that human capital has a greater value to organizations or companies as the knowledge and skills it possesses make it the most important resource as compared to other resources within organizations. The knowledge and skills enable the human capital to innovate and create in the operational processes, which make companies to be competitive in the market. For the human capital to be able to show its value, institutions should invest in it through capacity building, total rewarding and creation of conducive working environment. The results of the study on the private institutions of higher learning in the provinces of Maputo and the city of Maputo support the above considerations.

Keywords : Human Capital, Value and Employee Performance.