Abstract In every organization, different employees have different capabilities. for development of these capabilities and linking with corporate strategies, according to each category of capabilities, different HRM styles should be used. The purpose of this paper was to examine the accordance of HRM styles with HR capabilities in industrial companies. So, by reviewing the related approaches, the effective factors in selecting HRM styles were discussed. Then, using "strategic value" and "uniqueness" as strategic capabilities, a classification of four types of workers were developed, and a HRM style was proposed for every type. Then the accordance of HRM styles with strategic capabilities in a sample of industrial companies was examined. Level of human capabilities and HRM styles in every company were determined with questionnaire survey. Finally, the obtained results were discussed and some suggestions were presented.