The purpose of this paper is to analyse methodological approaches to form human capital in a way to improve them. Among the methods used were the analytical method, the functional method, the systematic analysis method, the deduction method, the comparison method and the synthesis method. The authors identified the parameters affecting human capital and the main areas for improvement and staff development in the context of digitalisation. They provided the recommendations on the choice of qualitative assessment methods and on the challenges of human capital development in the digital economy. The researchers defined the essence and the directions of overcoming human capital dysfunction when ensuring effective development of intellectual capital in the digital economy. They pointed out the importance of human capital in the development of modern economic relations and the direction of technological development in the economy. The authors identified the advantages and the disadvantages of existing methodologies for the measurement of human capital in the functioning and development of the modern economy.