1964 Civil Rights Act Human Resource Management
I believe that if the 1964 Civil Rights Act had never passed into a law, human resource management would still have seen an important shift from personnel management to what we know today as human resource management. There would be differences not just with the actual timeline but foundational differences. It’s true Title VII played a major role in what we now know as the human resource management movement but I would make the case the movement was developing before the law’s existence and I believe the momentum would have continued without the specific law being passed. Well before 1964 labor unions were already in existence in Europe and America. The labor unions have millions of members and if you look at how Unions operate to protect