The market leading text, Strategic Human Resources Planning, is now in its fifth edition. The fundamental premise of this text is that different organizational strategies require different human resources management (HRM) policies and practices. Strategic Human Resources Planning, Fifth Edition, is designed to help human resources (HR) managers plan and make decisions about the allocation of resources for the effective management of people in organizations, within a given strategy. The fifth edition has been updated with new examples and practices from the human resources field as well as new cases and exercises to help students apply the concepts presented in the text.