Your team of interns has been tasked with looking into countries where Southwest can expand. Your team needs to review human resource management principles from some of the countries listed below to determine if the country is a good fit for the organization.

Each person will select a country and be its representative. Canada

Provide your group with your newfound expertise of human resource principles for your selected country. Consider information about the following:

o Recruitment practices
o Payment systems
o Labor relations
o Training and support

create 2 slides presentation for management that features your research and recommendation on where the organization should expand. Include detailed speaker notes so any member of your team could present if needed. Include citations in APA format (not included in slide count).

Review the following sources to assist with your presentation:

5. Hofstede Insights Country Comparison: Type in “United States” and the desired other country to compare 6 dimensions of culture. https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/

6. World Economic Forum Country Economic profiles: Search for a specific country.

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Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 1960s

Civil rights movements involved a struggle for social justice and providence of equal rights for the Black community during the 1950s and 1960s in the USA. African Americans were faced with numerous social, racial discrimination and oppression despite the abolishment of slavery, due to the Civil War. The black community, during this period, faced and endured devastating effects of racism, segregation, prejudices, and collective violence against the community (Bois). In response, through Black collective efforts, African Americans mobilized and formed a civil rights movement in the bid to fight for equality and social justice as the Whites received privileges and rights that were equally denied among the Black community. The development of Civil Rights Movements was characterized by a fight for social justice, an end in disfranchisement among the Blacks, and equality. Civil rights efforts involved diverse strategies, namely legal actions in Supreme Court, importunes against the government, and mass action for the Black Power. Even though many people describe the civil rights movement as a stagnant and mechanical process, it was a changing process, seen through achieved goals, achievements, and variation of failures.

The main events and issues surrounding the movements that resulted in the immense movement development was due to arrest made against Rosa for refusing to surrender her seat to a white male on a Montgomery bus in 1955. This event fueled and officiated the movement to fight against the racial segregation of African Americans. Prior to that, boycotts and lawsuits on bus segregation were ongoing to condemn racial segregation on the public transport system, which involved Colvin, a fifteen-year-old girl (Jessie). In addition, the presence of Jim Crow Laws established in the 19th century in the South facilitated the presence of racial segregation. The laws were established through the passage and legal foundation of the 14th and 15th Amendments. According to Crow’s laws, Southern African Americans would live under poverty and inequality conditions. The law forbid them from using public facilities same with those of the Whites, interracial marriages were highly banned and illegalized, and disfranchisement was prevalent unless they passed the voter literacy tests.

These issues were not present in the Northern states; therefore, the unfulfilled promises and emancipation especially faced among African Americans in their low paid jobs and military serving highly fueled the development of the civil rights movement. One major event that starred the peace and instigated protests, laws suits, government lobbying was the court case between Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 (Bois). The case challenged Brown’s policy on school segregation, which was upheld in 1896 in a court case between Plessy v. Ferguson. The policy stated that equality among Black and White would be achieved separately. Therefore, the school would be attended by both black and white people but in separate facilities. During the 1954 case, 13 parents from Topeka Kansas School through the NAACP challenged the school racial segregation policy, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs ruling that the equal-separate treatment and policy was unconstitutional (Bois). These events and issues experienced from the 19th and 20th century thus fueled the development of the civil right movements.

Strategies used among the civil rights movement were diverse, which changed and evolved for maximum effectiveness, including legal actions in Supreme Court, importunes against the government, and mass action for the Black Power. One major lawsuit that contributed to the changing process nature of the civil rights movement was the Brown v. Board of Education. The case was one-step to success, and goal attainment including desegregation as the separate-but-equal policy was eliminated (Bois). This achievement and the celebratory mood was short-lived, as the court order was not implemented instantly when, in 1957, the nine students in Little Rock were denied access to the school. At this point, celebration milieu turned into a revolutionary atmosphere that resulted in developed and evolved strategies. Civil disobedience and nonviolence protests were conducted in all social institutions facilitating and promoting racial segregation like workplaces and the bus system. Key personnel such as King were leaders of the mass actions and protests, others, including labor unions (AFL-CIO), religious groups (SCLC), and student organizations (SNCC) (Bois). These strategies helped create awareness of black power, showing how nonviolent protestors were harassed and physically abused by police officers. The facilitation and awareness of social equality and desegregation-involved boycotts, sit-in protests, and marches for equal opportunities. During this period, the movement had grown to include many protestors, and the marching was in the quest to abolish disfranchisement.

The success or failure of the Civil rights movement is dependent on one’s perception of the Movement. Apparent successes included desegregation of public utilities and services, presentation of equal economic and employment opportunities, however, racism was still prevalent, and after the death of Luther King, social inequalities were still prevalent. Primarily, the protests resulted in legislative changes such as the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1960, 1964, and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (BNA). Through the 1965 Act, it was a win for African Americans as they could easily promote equal rights and vote for leaders supportive of social justice and equality only. Racial segregations in public services was minimized and black power realized. Legislation changes were a celebratory achievement for the civil rights movement, which formed a basis for other activism groups (King). For instance, through Malcolm X, Black Power was spearheaded, which advocated for cultural pride, self-reliance, and self-defense amidst orchestrated racial violence. Nevertheless, there seems to have unfinished business in the Movement, as the primary goals of social justice and equality in socio-economic and political spheres have not been attained.

The assassination of King seemed like the end of the Movement, as the efforts were not enough due to the existence of racism and social inequality experienced (King). During that period, segregations strategies advanced, and cases of racial discriminations were still conducted. For instance, in workplaces, despite being allowed and offered higher positions, African Americans were not paid similarly as their white counterparts in similar positions (King). Whenever Black employees made mistakes in their jobs, white counterparts would exaggerate the mistakes and have them fired and even demoted. In schools, teachers were biased in their disciplinary measures with them paying more attention to African American students. Assignment grading was harsh among black students compared with white students.

Concisely, despite the ‘unfinished business’ presented above, one can conclude that the civil rights movement had its achievements and failures equally presented. One undisputable achievement that cannot match any failure is the fact that it was a process-driven change kind of Movement. The small changes and legislative changes achieved by the help of key personnel made a significant difference then and today.

Works Cited

BNA. “Alabama Department of Archives and History Public Information Subject Files – General Files, Voter Registration.” Birmingham News article 10 February 1966.

Bois, W.E.B. Du. Against racism : unpublished essays, papers, addresses, 1887-1961. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.

Jessie, Inez. “Integrated Bus Suggestions.” Baskin Papers 1956. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Clayborne Carson. The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Intellectual Properties Management In Association With Warner Books, 1998.