1. Perform a brief research of the steps needed to establish your own contracting business (Sole Proprietorship or Partnership) in Miami-Dade County. Provide the following:

• Steps that needs to be taken to establish your business
• A list of paperwork and forms that need to be filled (you do not need to actually fill them)

1. You, and two of your friends, are starting a new firm for construction services. You are planning to hire a maximum of five employees to work for your company for a maximum total company size of eight people. Design a company structure to effectively and efficiently compete in the market and run day-to-day tasks. Your answer should include the following:

• Your choice of legal form: partnership, limited liability company, or small-sized private corporation? Explain your choice.
• An introductory paragraph briefly describing your and your friend expertise and how you believe major responsibilities should be split among you based on the selected legal form.
• An organizational chart showing the division responsibilities and lines of supervision
• A matrix (i.e staffing plan) showing the company operating chart that defines the working relationships between company personnel.
• A job description including responsibilities and duties (in bullet points and using action verbs) foronly threeemployees in the company.

Use the list of construction duties . You can also limit the number of essential duties to 20 major tasks, which need to be split between the company personnel. Therefore, your staffing plan will have 20 rows representing the functions/tasks and up to eight columns representing the company personnel.