Introduction

On June 16–19, 1986, the Research Committee of the Human Resource Planning Society sponsored a symposium held at the Salve Regina College in Newport, RI. This symposium, the second sponsored by the Human Resource Planning Society, was titled “Creating The Competitive Edge Through Human Resource Applications” and consisted of the presentation of thirty papers with appropriate follow-on discussion. This introduction provides an executive overview of the symposium and a brief review of the individual papers included in the book.