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Final Project
Be sure to review the Final Project Guidelines document from the Week 1 Learning Resources area.
In the Final Project for this course, you demonstrate your understanding of the major topics presented by applying these concepts to a government or non-profit organization of your choice.
For the Final Project, you select a government (federal, state, or local) or non-profit organization with which you are familiar. This could be an organization for which you currently work, have worked, know about from others, or have learned about through academic resources and/or media. With this organization in mind, you explore the various topics of the course. As you progress through the readings and assignments think about how these topics pertain to the organization you selected. The Learning Resources, Discussions, and Assignments all assist you in completing each section of the Final Project.
In your Final Project, you analyze and assess the following areas of the organization based on the processes and principles related to human resources management in a government or non-profit organization:
- Mission and goals of the organization
- Strategic human resource management
- Applicable legal and ethical codes
- Diversity considerations
- Labor unions, privatization and outsourcing
- Recruitment and selection methods
- Compensation and benefits
- Performance management and development
- Opportunities, challenges, and trends
For the sections provide your analysis and assessment based on the processes and principles related to human resources management.
The Final Project is submitted in three parts in Weeks 2, 7, and 10:
- Week 2: Submit a government (federal, state, or local) or non-profit organization with which you are familiar. Submit no later than Day 7 of Week 2.
- Week 7: Submit an outline and annotated bibliography of a 3- to 4-page outline and include 3 annotated bibliographies with a list of the remaining 7 in APA reference format. Submit no later than Day 7 of Week 7.
- Week 10: Submit the Final Project (15–20 pages). Your Final Project must demonstrate both breadth and depth of knowledge and critical thinking appropriate to graduate-level scholarship. It must follow APA Publication Manual guidelines and be free of typographical, spelling, and grammatical errors. The project should be 15–20 pages in length (double-spaced), not including the title page, the abstract, and must include the course resources and at least 10–12 peer reviewed scholarly references taken from the Walden Library which are no more than five years old. Submit no later than Day 7 of Week 10.
Explanation & Answer
Hey buddy, the paper shows plagiarism in some areas is because it was continuation of the 'Outline' that we had handed in earlier. This was a completion of that outline so I carried on with some of the information that we had given in earlier as a draft.
Running head: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Amnesty International
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a nonprofit organization that pays a particular focus on human
rights issues and also pushes for the entities and governments to comply with international laws.
To achieve those roles, AI utilizes the public's voice through mobilizations and in turn creating
pressure on the respective governments that are seen to allows such abuse to take place. The
organization was founded in 1961 by lawyer Peter Benenson and has its headquarters in London
(Amnesty International, 2016). The organization has over 7 million members and supporters
spread out throughout the world. The activities of the organization are coordinated at various
levels with regional offices at various locations globally, and it relies on voluntary membership
(Amnesty International, 2016).
Structure, activities, and the team
Amnesty International activities are predominantly led by volunteer members together
with a few paid professionals. As of the year 2015, the organization had a total staff membership
of 2,626 which was an increase of around 8.2 percent from 2014 (Amnesty International, 2016
d). Of that number, 63.3 percent of the staff are full-time employees (Amnesty International,
2016 d). A big proportion of those staff members are stationed in found in Europe taking up
approximately 68 percent of the staff. On the other hand, the region with the least number of
staff is in the Middle East and North Africa region that accounted for a paltry 2.09 percent which
was a slight increase from the previous year’s 1.6 percent (Amnesty International, 2016 d). Apart
from the employed staff, the organization has a large number of volunteers and activists
(Amnesty International, 2016 d).
Volunteering is seen as an important part of any civil society throughout the world. It
plays an important part and has been seen to contribute equivalently to around 11 million full-
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time jobs, and accounts for roughly 65 percent of the total income of the philanthropic
organizations (Brudney and Meijs, 2009). There is an ongoing challenge with the not-for-profit
organizations like Amnesty International in managing a workforce that is predominantly made of
volunteers (Guo et al. 2011). Such entities rely on the workers who dedicate themselves to the
organization and assist them to achieve their social mission. The challenge however for such
organization arises in recruitment and retention of highly talented individuals and effective team
members (Guo et al. 2011). The organization's leadership in the not-for-profit sector has resorted
to some strategies that would help meet those challenges. They are now more focused on
capacity building and working on ways that would make the organizations more efficient. They
have also resorted to improving the effectiveness of their activities through sound business
practices (Guo et al. 2011).
Operational Structure, Legal and Ethical Obligations
Amnesty International activities are structured in a manner that at the very top is the
International Secretariat which assumes an oversight role on a global scale; the next level is
comprised of the sections, groups, individuals, sections, and networks. The International
Secretariat (IS) who is responsible for carrying out research and reports; it also guides the
institution in speaking in one voice globally about various human rights concerns (Amnesty
International, 2016 d). The secretariat has the role of furnishing the organization with the legal
analysis of various data that is gathered by the team and it is the information that is used when
lobbying for international support. It monitors the financial capabilities of the organization, gives
support to the various system that enables the organization to be ready at all times to intervene to
various issues (Amnesty International, 2018).
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The structure of the secretariat is done in a distributed manner with activities spread out
in five main regional offices which are in Africa in the three corners of Dakar, Johannesburg, and
Nairobi. In the Americas region, they are stationed in Mexico City and Lima (Amnesty
International, 2016 d). In Asia, the regional offices are in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and South Asia
being controlled in both the area and London (Amnesty International, 2016 d). The fourth region
is Europe and Central Asia in London, Moscow, and Brussels. Finally, there is the Middle East
and North Africa region, the regional offices for this area is found in Beirut, Tunis, and East
Jerusalem (Amnesty International, 2016 d). The international secretariat also has offices and
presence in other parts of the world specifically, Geneva, New York, Madrid, Oslo, Geneva,
Washington D.C and Paris (Amnesty International, 2016 d).
The sections level carries out Amnesty International roles on a national and regional
level, and they are stationed in approximately 70 countries globally (Amnesty International,
2018). Their roles include lobbying local governments, fundraising, enhancing communication
within the regions, laying out the strategies for media activities and also recruitment of
supporters, and carrying out research on various issues within the confines of their respective
regions. The group level is based on communities which can be the immediate communities
such as neighborhoods, institutions, and religious groupings and so on. The roles and
responsibilities are in educating the public on the various issues, carrying out campaigns,
engaging with the media, fundraising, recruitments and much more.
Under the groups are individuals who are members of AI and play the role of giving
support through financial initiatives and membership fees, they are also activists who participate
in the writing of letters and signing of petitions among other roles (Amnesty International, 2018).
The network is also another level that plays a vital role in AI activities and is made up of
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members that have a common interest, identity, or a specialty which enables them to play a
specific part in the human right issues. The network can have a much broader global reach
(Amnesty International, 2018).
Responsible management is applied in the activities of the Amnesty International. The
organization carries out a thorough analysis of its activities by considering the scope, nature,
effectiveness, and also assess what impact they have on the community (Amnesty International,
2016 d). The organization has put in strategies to ensure that it stays aware about such impact
and understands that ...
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