[Excerpt] Since its implementation, strategic human resource management has helped assuage the age-old conflict formerly accepted to be inherent between employees and management. The interests of these two parties have long been erroneously assumed to be diametrically opposed. Nevertheless, the development of effective strategic HR policies has demonstrated that gains for both businesses and workers can be made by pursuing more collaborative relations between the two. Specifically, the utilization of effective talent management and career development strategies has gone a long way toward producing a more amicable relationship between employees and management, and by extension more productive and profitable firms.