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LAW 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Condition Precedent, Liquidated Damages, Alternative Dispute Resolution

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16 Oct 2012

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Risk management: process of identifying, evaluating, and responding to the possibility of harmful events. You need to identify, evaluate, and respond to the legal risks involved. Identify: think about the liability, who is held responsible, possibility of being sued. Risk avoidance: do not deal with situation at all. Risk reduction: still be in the situation, but make it less risky. Risk acceptance: accept it and deal with it. Differences between making an employee do something or an indep contractor. Company isn t vicariously liable for an independent contractor. Insurance: a contract in which one party agrees, in exchange for a price, to pay a certain amount of money if another party suffers a loss. Liability insurance: benefit if the purchaser is held liable for doing something wrong. Property insurance: benefit if the purchaser s property is damaged, lost, or destroyed. Exclusion and limitation clauses: contractual terms change the usual rules of liability of the signer agreed to the contract.

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Identify which human resources management activity is being illustrated in the following examples:

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9) _____ An HR manager listens to and records an employee grievance.

10) _____ A supervisor negotiates a job offer with a candidate.

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12) _____ An HR manager perfors background and reference checks on a potential candidate.

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