Human resource management and business performance -- Connecting strategy and human resource management. Strategy and the process of strategic management. Strategic HRM: 'best fit' or 'best practice'? Strategic HRM and the resource-based view of the firm -- Managing people: searching for general principles. Work systems and the changing priorities of production. Linking work systems and models of employment. Managing individual performance and development. Managing employee voice in unionised and non-unionised firms -- Managing people in dynamic and complex business contexts. Human resource strategy and the dynamics of industry-based competition. Corporate human resource strategy in the global economy. Conclusion: implications for the strategic management process.