The differences in emphasis in psychology and HRM are far from absolute. Psychologists have played a role in the view of employees as interchangeable resources, developing highly effective methods of selecting the best employees from a pool of applicants and of training employees to meet the challenges of their jobs. HRM professionals are concerned with employees not only as assets to a firm, but also as individuals. Nevertheless, we believe that the somewhat different orientation of psychologists and HRM researchers and professionals does lead to some important differences in the problems they attempt to solve and in the ways they go about doing this.