Market_Desc: General Managers, HR Managers, Graduate Level Students and Professors interested in Strategic HR Issues. Special Features: · Provides conceptual tools and frameworks to organize one's thinking about strategic human resource concerns.· Looks at HRM from a strategic point of view, taking the position managers should mold their decisions regarding technology, structure, strategy, plant siting, and the like to the company's HRM system. About The Book: Human Resources are the most important resource that a firm commands and should be regarded as capital, a factor of production in which managers invest today in order to realize future profits. This book deals with the strategic implications of Human Resource Management as an important strategic asset and emphasizes its importance within the overall strategy of the firm. The book covers issues such as job design, evaluation, recruitment, training, career concern, and outsourcing and downsizing. The linkage between the various pieces of HRM policy are stressed and how the policies are related to management issues such as TQM, just-in-time manufacturing, and others. The book is aimed at the general manager, not the HRM practitioner and it stresses conceptual frameworks, not procedural methodology.