Ensuring the alignment and integration of learning and development with compensation and rewardsand other management policies, processes, and practicesis an important aspect of effective talent management. There is, first, a need for horizontal alignmentensuring that both learning and development and compensation and rewards, along with other elements of the human resources and management architecture, are linked together and support one another. However, it is even more important for an organization to ensure vertical alignment, which it achieves from having both learning and development and compensation and rewards, and other processes, aligned with its overall business strategy and its mission, vision, and values.