This book deals with the interaction between strategy and human resources, as approached from a general managerial perspective. Updated and revised, the Second Edition provides students with a comprehensive overview of human resource issues applied to the most current technological advances and updated investments in employment practices. The book provides an investment perspective of human resources and covers the human resource general and legal environment, strategy formulation, planning, strategy implementation, the performance impact of human resource practices and resource evaluation. For managers and executives involved with human resource issues.