Please make sure to review all of the subcomponents in detail before submitting your project proposal, worth 50 points (due end of Week 2). The proposal should be a maximum of two pages and should be about a multinational company that operates in two different cities overseas that you have selected (including the reason why), a brief outline (a rough draft is fine) of your paper, and your thoughts on some of the sources you might utilize in the paper. The Course Project will not be accepted unless your proposal is submitted to the Dropbox and approved. The focus of your paper is an international human resources topic (not general business). Body of the Project Your project will provide an in-depth look at how a major multinational company operates overseas in two separate countries. The country comparison project is a 15- to 20-page paper that asks you to compare and contrast laws and regulations, mandated compliance issues, demographics, culture, currency, economic and political stability, language, labor relations (unions), HRM policies and practices, HR trends and the likely effects, and the characteristics of the HR department/function of two separate countries. Provide as much insight into, and explanation of, the differences or similarities as possible. Use your understanding of the impact of the contextual factors (see below) on the HR policies and practices to estimate what a country’s HR policies and practices are likely to be, just in case you can’t find specific information on them. Use this understanding in your discussion of the HR policies and practices you find and the contextual factors of the countries. Make predictions about future trends toward possible convergence of HR policies and practices. Integrate research from online sources as well as our library to support your ideas and conclusions. You will select a region of the world, and within your region, select two countries. For each country, select a target city to use in your analysis. The following is a list of the seven regions that you can choose from.