This is an examination of human resource management practice in Ireland. It is the product of an analysis of data generated by the second Cranfield/University of Limerick (CUL) study of HRM in Irish organizations, administered during 1995. The study forms part of the Price Waterhouse-Cranfield Project on International Strategic Human Resource Management in Europe, first established in 1989 and involving some 19 participating countries. A companion volume to Continuity and Change in Irish Employee Relations this work seeks to interest students and practitioners looking for data on human resource management in Ireland.