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 book is aimed at the general manager, not the hrm practitioner and it stresses conceptual frameworks, not procedural methodology. · introduction · the five factors · consistent hr practices: the whole can be more than the sum of the parts · employment and economics · employment as a social relation · voice: unions and other forms of employee representation · employment, society, and the law · internal labor markets · high-commitment hr · performance evaluation · pay for performance · compensation systems: forms, bases, and distribution of rewards · job design · staffing and recruitment · training · promotion and career concerns · downsizing · outsourcing · hrm in emerging companies · organizing hr - from Amzon