Acknowledgement

This report bears the importance of color women. Hidden Figure movie is the real historical story
based movie. We would have not got unique opportunities to successfully complete our movie
term project.

We take this opportunities to express our sincere thanks full appreciation to our faculty guide
support for complete our term paper.

Again, this movie project is very interesting for us and we are working very sincerely for perfectly
complete this term paper. This movie is very importance for a HR team so we will try our best for
this movie term paper.

Executive Summary of HIDDEN FIGURE

The film Hidden Figures is based on a true story. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and
Mary Jackson are best friends. They are also African American women working in NASAs
Virginia compound in 1961.In the movie we can see the height of racism of the early 60s in
America. The three ladies and their life story gets blended in this racism as they were treated poorly
and was deprived of many rights they deserved. Nevertheless they quietly did their works towards
the country they live in. The movie is named Hidden Figures and its worth it. Because I think
behind the curtain of Racism there were many brilliant minds who were hidden. The three
African-American ladies are shown as examples. They were neglected and deprived. But at the
end of the day they became the national heroes. These figures were hidden and the society was
just too conservative to discover them. In the end they were shining like a star.

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Table of content

Details Page No.

Introduction 1-2
Main character analysis 3-5
Explain different problems the 6-7
organizations/management/employees
is facing in the movie
Relating 20 to the movie with movie 8-16
scenario (Most important part of the
report. Applying theory to the movie)
What did you learn from the movie 17-18
References 19

Introduction of this Report

This is an incredibly powerful and complex story, and Shetterly has it down cold. The breadth of
her well-documented research is immense, and her narrative compels on every level. Exploring
the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American
technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent
movements for civil rights. It was hard enough to be a woman in the industry at that time, but the
black women who worked at Langley also had to be strong, sharp, and sufficiently self-possessed
to be able to question their superiorsand that is just what they did....their story is inspiring and
enlightening. The film, set at NASA in 1961, depicts segregated facilities such as the West Area
Computing unit, where an all-black group of female mathematicians were originally required to
use separate dining and bathroom facilities. It is very painful for them.

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Main character analysis:
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson: She was born in August 26, 1918 (age 99), White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia, United States. She is an African-American mathematician who made
contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of
digital electronic computers at NASA. Known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation,
she conducted technical work at NASA that spanned decades. During this time, she calculated the
trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project
Mercury, including the early NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, and the
1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program. Her calculations were
critical to the success of these missions. Johnson also performed calculations for the plans for a
mission to Mars.

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Main character analysis
Mary Winston Jackson: She was born in April 9, 1921, Hampton, Virginia, United States. She
was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton,
Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing
division. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female
engineer.

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Main character analysis
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan: She was born in Dorothy Johnson September20, 1910 Kansas
City, Missouri, and United States. She was an African American mathematician and human
computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA),
and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting
supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise a group
of staff at the center. She later was promoted officially to this position. During her 28-year career,
Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers. In the early 1960s by teaching she
and she staff the programming language of FORTRAN.

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Different problems the organizations/management/employees is
facing in the movie.

No Prefect Work Place

Racial and Gender Discrimination

Safety

Rightsizing

Downsizing

Motivation

Maintenance

No Perfect Work Place

There has no prefect work place and color women different from others employees. There was not
comfortable situation for the color women. There has no bathroom and coffee mug for the color
women. Because of bathroom is not their work place bathroom is another building so, when she
came bathroom harm her work and waste her time. Any time, any location they are insulted
because they are Negros (Color American). The HR department needs to drive diversity within
their organization.

Racial and Gender Discrimination

Racial and gender discrimination is the major problem any corporate work place. Regarding to the
solutions to this, setting up gender-sensitive schools is a crucial step in making a nice environment
for learning and teaching. Helping female feel more confident in studying, improving a gender-
sensitive curriculum which reflects national policy on gender equality to instruct is also necessary.

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 Safety
The changes were made in the interest of public safety for color women. Many organizations have
trained senior managers about the differences between the past, present and future of safety. They
have developed overarching strategies for safety excellence. They have utilized greater expertise
and advanced technology to investigate accidents and determine appropriate countermeasures.

Rightsizing
This has no linking employee needs to organizational strategy. Katherine cant not satisfy her
work. Day by day her work place is getting uncomfortable for her perfect work. A better team for
this organizational action, then might be rightsizing.it involves linking staffing levels to
organizational goals.

Downsizing
Downsizing means an actives in an organizational at creating greater efficiency by eliminating
certain jobs. But this has a many types of efficiency. Organizational are attempting to increase
their flexibility in order to better respond to change.

Motivate
Many organizations today recognize that motivating employees also requires a level of respect
between management and the workers. This respect can be seen as involving employees in
decisions that affect them, listening to employees, and implementing their suggestions where
appropriate. It is the most important thongs for every corporation.

Maintenance
The process of maintaining or preserving someone or something, or the state of being
maintained.in additional to protecting employees welfare HRM must operate appropriates
communications programs in the organization. Such program help employees know what is
occurring around them and provide a place to vent frustrations.

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20 Theories that we found from Hidden Figures movie scenario according to

Fundamentals of Human resource management Book and that are given blow:
1. Cultural discrimination:
In plain English, to "discriminate" means to distinguish, single out, or make a distinction. In
everyday life, when faced with more than one option, we discriminate in arriving at almost every
decision we make. But in the context of civil rights law, unlawful discrimination refers to unfair or
unequal treatment of an individual (or group) based on certain characteristics, including:
Age
Disability
Ethnicity
Gender
Marital status
National origin
Race,
Religion, and
Sexual orientation.
In the movies first scene we can see the story of Taraji P. Henson lead character of the movie as
she was little besides having a brilliant mind in mathematics she has limited study opportunity
because of being negro. This is an example of cultural discrimination. Although we go further this
type discrimination of because of the skin colure increases.
2. The Labor Supply:
Supply labor is one of the most important task in the company or a factory basically its a job for Human
Resource Management department besides supplying labor your task is not limit to only supplying labor
but to make sure that the person who getting the job is he/she is suitable for the applying job.

In the movie we can see that the NASA company need a IBM (International Business Machines, or IBM,
nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation
headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States) but due to some circumstances they didnt have it yet.
So, as a replacement of that computer (IBM) they need a human computer who can do the job of an IBM.
Although it was a temporary job.

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In movie we also can see that Mary Jackson (Janelle Mone) got a request from Mr. Zielinskis for her for
permanent assignment. It is also in a category of labor supply. But in the case of Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia
Spencer) as she was applied for supervisor position but get rejected due to colure discrimination.

3. Race and color discrimination:

Racial discrimination is one of the most common discrimination complaints field with the Equal
Employment opportunity commission. Racial and color discrimination involves treating an
employee or applicant differently because of personal characteristic that is related to race such as
hair texture, skin color, or facial features. It also arise from cultural characteristics like a persons
name, attire, or accent.

In the movies point of view we can also see Race and color discrimination. The leading characters
of the movie faces many problem because of the race and color discrimination. We can see the
women who is in the position of human computer (Katherine G. Johnson) has different coffee
maker and a different coffee mug and also for the black people they had a separate washroom.

4. Gender discrimination:
Gender discrimination is commonly seen in every aspect of our life including workplace, school,
collages, university etc. Jobs may be offered to a less qualified male applicant just because he is
male.

Women are also more likely to be judged by their looks and how they dress than are their male
counterparts. On a note of contradiction, women are not only discriminated against for being
"pretty" or "provocative" they are also discriminated against for being not pretty enough, too old,
or, in some positions (especially sales and public relations) for not being sexy enough.

The "glass ceiling" is also a form of gender discrimination. The term refers to the invisible barriers
that prevent women from climbing the ranks of management because the upper level and executive
positions are given to men. Glass ceiling policies are unwritten, and sometimes referred to as the
"old boys network," but whatever it is called, it is another form of gender discrimination.

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If men get more time off, better compensation packages or benefits than women based on unfair
gender bias its gender discrimination and it is illegal.

Despite protective anti-discrimination laws making gender discrimination illegal, management

practices at small, mid-size, and even giant corporations often still favor the advancement of men.

If we go through the movie we can also see the gender discrimination there. There is a barriers that
prevent women to do the work or attending some meeting where only mens are allowed to do so.
In the last scenes of the movie one of the scene sawing that Paul Stafford prevent Katherine G.
Johnson to go the meeting because no women is allowed to enter that room.

5. Disciplinary guidelines:
Every company and institution have a particular guideline Rules and regulation need to full fill
and not to break it. A company has to have a certain godliness rules and regulation to prevent
undesirable behavior. Its object is to make disciplinary action corrective rather than punitive.

In the movie we can see the company that the three women works had to follow certain types of
rules and regulation. That they have finish their work at time the black women have use a different
washroom and a different coffee mug etc.

6. The Internal search:

Many large organization attempt to develop their own entry-level employees for higher position.
These promotions can occur through an internal search of current employees who have bid for the
position, been identified through the organizations human resource man agreement system, or
even been referred by a fellow employee.
In movie the NASA wants to have an employee in the position in human computer who was a
temporary replacement of IBM. The employee they hired for the job (Katherine G. Johnson)
works as an internal employee.

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7. Employee Referrals and Recommendations:
An employee referral program is a process through which employees recommend qualified people
from their network for possible recruitment.

1. A referred candidate is faster to hire than a traditional candidate

Intuitively, this makes perfect sense. Rather than having to craft a job posting, receive resumes
and screen through them all, all you have to do is interview a referred candidate to hire them.

2. A referred candidate is cheaper to hire than a traditional candidate

Referred candidate is cheaper to hire than a traditional candidate. You dont have to pay traditional
recruiting costs to source them an advertisement on a job board, agency fees, etc. and, because
they are faster to hire, it also means spending less on your internal labor costs.

We can also see in the movie about the Employee referrals and Recommendation where firstly
mary Jackson (Janelle Mone) get a job through referral program where she got a permanent job
and secondly (Katherine G. Johnson) also got a reference for an analytic geometrical job.

8. Ethics and Employee Rights:

Employees are an asset to the company and any ethical organization would like its employees to
be happy and prosperous by providing them a safe and happy working environment, steady work,
reasonable modifications to work time, and a healthy work-life balance. Many companies that top
the chart when it comes to providing ideal environments to its employees credit their good
employee management and retention programs as the key to their success.
In the movie When Black Women do the Work, but others get the Title, Recognition, and Pay,
This is a reality that Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy shared. Katherine did the math, but her white
male colleague got the title and pay, while his name was the only one listed on the report (even
though the numbers were Katherines work). Katherine did the work, but the white male initially
got the credit. Mary Jackson, the engineer, was faced with the same challenges. When her character
was asked by a colleague, If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer? She
replied, I wouldnt have to, Id already be one.

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Faced with the reality of segregated schools, Mary was not able to initially attend the right schools
or classes to meet the requirements of the engineering program. Although she was working at the
same level and had the ability, she did not share the title or pay of her male counterparts. Her
characters response speaks to a gender issue and the challenges that women at large continue to
face in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers fields.

The racial dynamic at play was evident in Dorothys story as well. She took on the responsibility
of serving as an interim supervisor for the segregated NACA, but she was denied the title and pay
for at least one year. She was in charge of all the colored computers, the African American
women mathematicians who contributed to the research at Langley, and influenced the
opportunities and upward mobility for other women like Katherine and Mary.

In 1958, Mary Jackson became NASAs first black female engineer. Dorothy Vaughan was
promoted to supervisor in 1949, making her NACAs first black supervisor, and she headed the
computing division nearly a decade before retiring from NASA in 1971.

9. Motivation:
For Every aspect of life motivation is important for the employee to keep up the good work.
Motivation is one of the most significant key to success no matter what the company or the
institution is.
In Hidden Figure Movie we can see when Katherine G. Johnson frustrated because of being color
discrimination she have use a separate which far from the office and that was the cause for her
being late in the work or cant submit the work in time. This was demotivation for her to work
properly. Then Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) Remove the board (colored Ladies Room) from the
toilet that keep berries between the black and white people and that is also a motivation in color
discrimination.

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10. Training
Training is important for employees, it helps how to work. Researchers have developed training
methods for artificial-intelligence devices as well. Evolutionary algorithms, including genetic
programming and other methods of machine learning, use a system of feedback based on "fitness
functions" to allow computer programs to determine how well an entity performs a task.

We can also see in the movie about the Employee referrals and Recommendation where firstly
mary Jackson (Janelle Mone) get a job through referral program where she got a permanent job
and secondly (Katherine G. Johnson) also got a reference for an analytic geometrical job.

11. Developing Employee Competence

Strategic HR professionals use industry association tools and resources to benchmark employee
performance against standards. By examining the operating models of other competitor companies,
these HR professionals help identify gaps in performance in their own businesses.

If we go through the movie we can also see the gender discrimination there. There is a barriers that
prevent women to do the work or attending some meeting where only mens are allowed to do so.
In the last scenes of the movie one of the scene sawing that Paul Stafford prevent Katherine G.
Johnson to go the meeting because no women is allowed to enter that room.

12. Focusing on Results

Strategic HR organizations work with executive leaders to define the operational measures for the
company. By closely monitoring performance, such as completed sales, customer satisfaction rates
and product defect occurrences, HR professionals help company leaders pinpoint trends, develop
risk mitigation plans and ensure readiness to avert a crisis in staffing or resource deployment.

In movie Kevin Costner wants have result no matter how and when the work is be done. He was
really focusing on the result despite the fact that Russia is one step of a head in every way then
u.s.a so Kevin Costner to break the barrier that stopping to moving forward.

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13. Maintaining Good Relationships
A final objective for human resources theory is in maintaining good relationships between the
organization's stakeholders. Stakeholders are anyone who has a vested interest in the business's
success, including the owner, man.
If we go through the movie the colleagues doesnt have that much of good relationship especially
between the black people and the white people because of the color discrimination.

14. Developing Employee Competence

Strategic HR professionals use industry association tools and resources to benchmark employee
performance against standards. By examining the operating models of other competitor companies,
these HR professionals help identify gaps in performance in their own businesses.
In Hidden Figure Movie we can see when Katherine G. Johnson frustrated because of being color
discrimination she have use a separate which far from the office and that was the cause for her
being late in the work or cant submit the work in time. This was demotivation for her to work
properly. Then Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) Remove the board (colored Ladies Room) from the
toilet that keep berries between the black and white people and that is also a motivation in color
discrimination.

15. Corporate Connections:

Case study analysis and guided viewing of on-air material will be used were possible. Students
will be expected to contact and investigate live HR issues in the community as part of their assessed
work. If we go through the movie the colleagues doesnt have that much of good relationship
especially between the black people and the white people because of the color discrimination.

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16. Hygiene factors
The two-factor theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor
theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction, while a
separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction. In Hidden Figure Movie we can see when Katherine
G. Johnson frustrated because of being color discrimination she have use a separate which far
from the office and that was the cause for her being late in the work or cant submit the work in
time. This was demotivation for her to work properly. Then Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) Remove
the board (colored Ladies Room) from the toilet that keep berries between the black and white
people and that is also a motivation in color discrimination.

17. Factors in Behavior

It includes the way they act based on different factors such as genetics, social norms, core faith,
and attitude. Behavior is impacted by certain traits each individual has. The traits vary from person
to person and can produce different actions or behavior from each person. Social norms also impact
behavior. In the movie When Black Women do the Work, but others get the Title, Recognition,
and Pay, This is a reality that Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy shared. Katherine did the math, but
her white male colleague got the title and pay, while his name was the only one listed on the report
(even though the numbers were Katherines work). Katherine did the work, but the white male
initially got the credit. Mary Jackson, the engineer, was faced with the same challenges. When her
character was asked by a colleague, If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
She replied, I wouldnt have to, Id already be one

18. Learning and Teaching Rationale

Case study analysis and guided viewing of on-air material will be used were possible. Students
will be expected to contact and investigate live HR issues in the community as part of their assessed
work. In the movie we can see the company that the three women works had to follow certain
types of rules and regulation. That they have finish their work at time the black women have use a
different washroom and a different coffee mug etc.

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19. Employee Relations
A human resource manager who stays in her office all day will not be effective at building strong
relationships with employees. Another function of the human resource manager is to gain the trust
and confidence of employees--the best way to establish trust and confidence is through daily
interaction with the workforce. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Human
resources occupations require strong interpersonal skills. Again, with a smaller workforce, the
results of an HR manager's interpersonal skills may be seen more quickly than in a large
organization. Employee relations is a large part of the human resources managers job function,
because employee concerns encompass a wide range of issues over which the manager has
influence. The human resource manager is the face of HR and therefore relied upon to be both
human resources expert and employee advocate. If we go through the movie the colleagues doesnt
have that much of good relationship especially between the black people and the white people
because of the color discrimination.

20. Recruitment
The success of recruiters and employment specialists generally is measured by the number of
positions they fill and the time it takes to fill those positions. Recruiters who work in-house -- as
opposed to companies that provide recruiting and staffing services -- play a key role in developing
the employer's workforce. They advertise job postings, source candidates, screen applicants,
conduct preliminary interviews and coordinate hiring efforts with managers responsible for
making the final selection of candidates. We can also see in the movie about the Employee referrals
and Recommendation where firstly mary Jackson (Janelle Mone) get a job through referral
program where she got a permanent job and secondly (Katherine G. Johnson) also got a reference
for an analytic geometrical job.

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 What did I learn from the movie

The movie gives a behind the scenes look into the successful launch of John Glenn. The first
American into orbit. We know his name. Katherine Johnson was the brains who calculated the
math to successfully bring Marine Corps Colonel Glenn back home.

Because of this movie, we now know Mrs. Katherine Johnson as the mathematician who made
significant contributions to several of NASAs aeronautics and space programs, including the
Apollo 11 flight to the moon. Katherine first joined the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) team as a human computer, and transitioned to Langley Research Centers
Guidance and Navigation Department to do and check the math of her white male colleagues. Her
academic depth and brilliance could not be denied.

In the movie, however, that did not stop her peers from trying to marginalize her in other ways.
Since she was the only black person in the office, they made sure to provide her with a colored
coffee pot which they did not fill with coffee. The most blatant injustice displayed on the screen
was the simple fact that she lost hours of work (nearly 40 minutes at a time) to literally run back
and forth to the only colored restroom on the entire NASA campus.

This was an invisible issue to her colleagues because it was not their reality, and the lack of having
a restroom near their desk did not negatively impact them. It was not until she was questioned
about her regular absence that she was able to raise the issue with her supervisors and confront
her peers. It took her raising the issue, making a hidden issue visible, for real change to take
place.

The movie did not indicate that her senior advisor was motivated by a moral code or civil rights,
he just believed that changes were needed because collectively they are not getting the job done.
They were not the bestcoming in second place to Russia, but Katherine could help them be the
best, and to do that, she needed to work effectively. Sometimes that is all thats required
someone who is willing to call out an injustice and someone in a position of authority who can
articulate how that injustice is negatively impacting everybody.

Sometimes all thats required is an authority who articulates how injustice impacts
everybody.

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Hidden Figures provides a lot of good news and hope for us. More than putting beautiful black
people on the screen and telling a compelling story, the movie provides hope. It is a history lesson
for ways African American stories are often forgotten or neglected in our classroom teaching and
history books. African American history is and has always been American history, and therefore
we must include and teach it throughout the entire year. It is an inspirational story about what can
happen when people see the big picture, and work together towards a greater calling or mission. It
shows us what happens when young boys and girls from any background get a great education and
have equal opportunities to excel.

It reminds us of how far we have come. Today, NASA is run by an African American male,
Administrator Charles Bolden. I know him as Major General Charles Bolden, U.S. Marine Corps
retired. He is a Naval Academy graduate, former NASA astronaut, and Christian from Columbia,
South Carolina. Things have changed, yet this movie challenges us to confront the issues that we
still face. Today, women are still under-represented in STEM career fields. Today, women are not
getting equal pay for equal work in every career field. Today, black women are the most educated
and underpaid people in the workforce. So Hidden Figures motivates us to press on so these hidden
injustices are hidden no more.

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Reference:

http://www.missioalliance.org/hidden-figures-teaches-injustice-remains-
hidden/

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/hidden-figures-nasa-director

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/hidden-figures-and-human-
computers

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