TY - JOUR AB - This article investigates the relationship between the functional areas of manufacturing and human resources by analysing the practices of human resource management associated with the competitive priorities of manufacturing strategy, e.g. quality, delivery performance, flexibility and cost. Within strategic business management, both the competitive priorities of manufacturing and the practices of human resource management need to be observed by the whole organisation. In this way, this study presents how human resource management practices are aligned to business strategies based on cost reduction, quality, delivery performance and product innovation. These practices may also be arranged in different ways in a particular competitive strategy. VL - 20 IS - 5 SN - 0144-3577 DO - 10.1108/01443570010318986 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443570010318986 AU - Santos Fernando C.A. PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - Integration of human resource management and competitive priorities of manufacturing strategy T2 - International Journal of Operations & Production Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 610 EP - 628 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -