Premise: It is vital to employee skilled employees to ensure new business venture success in difficult times. Topics of discussion: Personnel: • Define organized craft labor • Define non-organized employees • Employee pay rates • Employee benefits • Employee training • Identifying potential employees • Firing/releasing employees • Managing employee behavioral issues • Employee motivation • Employee scheduling Business of the Business: • Acquiring customers • Contracts • Acquiring financing • Insurance • Governmental Compliance • Legal Representation • Taxes, business and personal • Safety and Security • Product Quality • Money Flow • Materials and Supplies Business Infrastructure: • Building and Energy • Communications • Information Technologies • Transportation • Accounting • Scheduling Business Concerns: • Managing Success • Managing Loss • Managing Theft • Managing the Competition Definitions for this paper. • Define the business/product • Define success • Business Plan • Business growth • Personal goals The establishment and management of a small construction business in Mid-America requires a full and constant understanding of business, personnel, resource management, the impact of the product being offered. This paper will discuss the impact of using organized craft labor versus establishing a workforce of non-organized independent employees. Either choice will impact the available markets for your product, and the profitability of the business. Each has drawbacks and advantages. First we must establish the business, its limiting parameters, the given facts, the expected probabilities and the expected outcome of using each type of workforce. List all assumptions made and give credit for all facts gathered. Have a list of items within the thesis that apply to your course work. From our studies in ______________ we learned ________________. This applies to our proposed business by _______________ . . . . . . . . . . Include a table of contents, bibliography, and credits for assistance given.