.). For example, if a business owner wants to compete using a cost framework, he or she will need to develop recruitment, selection, and compensation strategies that encourage employees to work efficiently in an effort to contain costs. Additionally, when developing human resource management practices, it is important to pay attention to internal alignment - or aligning each human resource practice with one another to establish a structure that is mutually reinforcing. For instance, using the above example, managers would want our training programs to teach employees to work efficiently (quickly with minimal waste) and we would want to develop a compensation system that rewards (at least to some degree) these behaviors