Draft a response to each of the bulleted questions below. Each question must have its own response and have a minimum of 75 words.

1. Choose one of the following tasks and discuss how this activity is implemented using your current or former employer as an example. What are the challenges of this activity? Conducting job analyses (determining the nature of each employee's job)

- Planning labor needs and recruiting job candidates

- Selecting job candidates

- Orienting and training new employees

- Managing wages and salaries (compensating employees)

- Providing incentives and benefits Appraising performance

- Communicating (interviewing, counseling, disciplining)

- Training and developing managers Building employee commitment

2. How and why is HR in small businesses different than in large firms?

3. What are two differences between an employee and an independent contractor?

4. Define the conversion tort, and explain how an employee could be found responsible for this civil offense.

5. Why do exceptions to employment-at-will exist? Whose interests do these exceptions protect? When determining if a discharge falls within one of the exceptions, what are some rules you could use to make a judgment?

6. Under what circumstances would you choose arbitration or mediation to resolve an employment dispute?

7. Identify and discuss a situation where assumption of risk bar the claim.

8. What are some problems the employer could face with misclassification?