隨著企業對人力資源功能的日益重視，一個好的人力資源規劃不僅能夠結合企業短中長期策略目標，更能強化企業競爭力。
在面對企業用人需求力求精準情況下，強調效率與效能是策略性人力資源管理的目標。
而本書可使學生讀者能夠有下列的認識：
1.企業需要何種人力資源方能達成策略性的目標。
2.企業需有擁有何種獨特的資源或機會，方能吸引發展與酬賞員工願為組織目標而努力。
3.如何提升員工未來的競爭能力
書籍特色：
1.本書適用於策略性人管課程，作者知名度佳。
2.本書以策略觀點論述HR功能在企業中之角色
3.章節架構之安排：本書以各知名學者專章介紹HR議題而成書，內容品質佳、適合研究所學生研讀。
PART I OVERVIEW of SHRM
Ch.1 Looking Inside for Competitive Advantage: Jay B. Barney
Ch.2 Understanding Human Resource Management in the Context of Organizations and Their Environments: Susan E. Jackson and Randall S. Schuler
Ch.3 Implications of the Converging Economy for Human Resource Management: Suzanne Zivnuska, David J. Ketchen, Jr. and Charles C. Snow
Ch.4 Human Resources and the Resource Based View of the Firm: Patrick M. Wright, Benjamin B. Dunford and Scott A. Snell
Ch.5 The Complex Resource-Based View: Implications for Theory and Practice in Strategic Human Resource Management: Barry A. Colbert
Ch.6 Alignment of Human Resources and Their Impact on Business Performance: Dave Ulrich
PART II GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
Ch.7 Converting Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage: Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan
Ch.8 Human Resource Strategy in International Context: Paul R. Sparrow and Werner Braun
Ch.9 Reframing Global Mindset: From Thinking to Acting: Vladimir Pucik
Ch.10 A Quarter-Century Review of Human Resource Management in the U.S.: The Growth in Importance of the International Perspective: Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson
Ch.11 European Human Resource Management: Researching Developments over Time: Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Chris Brewster
Ch.12 HRM in China: Fang Lee Cooke
Ch.13 HRM in India: Debi S. Saini and Pawan S. Budhwar
PART III STRATEGY INTO ACTION
Ch.14 HR Strategy and Competitive Advantage in the Service Sector: Peter Boxall
Ch.15 Managing the Human Resource Architecture for Knowledge-Based Competition: David P. Lepak and Scott A. Snell
Ch.16 New HR Metrics: Scoring on the Business Scorecard: Richard W. Beatty, Mark A. Huselid and Craig Eric Schneier
Ch.17 Strategies for Responsible Restructuring: Wayne F. Cascio
PART IV ROLE OF THE HR DEPARTMENT AND HR PROFESSIONALS
Ch.18 The Three-Dimensional People Strategy: Putting Human Resources Policies into Action: Lynda Gratton and Catherine Truss
Ch.19 Seeing the Elephant: Human Resource Management Challenges in the Age of Globalization: Mark E. Mendenhall, J.Stewart Black, Robert J. Jensen, and Hal B. Gregersen
Ch.20 The Changing Role of the Corporate HR Function in Global Organizations of the Twenty-first Century: Milorad M. Novicevic and Michael Harvey
Ch.21 People Processing Systems and Human Resource Strategy: Shaun Tyson and Doone Selbie
CONCLUSION
Ch.22. Strategic Human Resource Management: A Look to the Future: David P. Lepak