Although discussions about strategic HR have been advanced for decades, there still remains a gap between research and practice (or ideal and reality) on how companies could manage human resources more strategically. In view of that condition, this article considered: (a) progress and problems in discussions surrounding strategic HR; (b) prospects for the fruitful future research and practice. The emerging topics in the human resource management area̶HRM as practice, talent management, HR/people/talent analytics, and e-HRM̶are discussed as potential opportunities to understand how we analyze and realize strategic HR in practice
