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Introduction

Many workers in the United States believe that satisfactory job performance should be rewarded with, among other benefits, job security. However, this expectation that employees will not be fired if they perform their jobs well has eroded in recent decades in the face of an increased incidence of mass layoffs, reductions in companies' workforces, and job turnover. In legal terms, though, since the last half of the 19th century, employment in each of the United States has been "at will," or terminable by either the employer or employee for any reason whatsoever. The employment-at-will doctrine avows that, when an employee does not have a written employment contract and the term of employment is of indefinite duration, the employer can terminate the employment with or without a reason.

Please answer the questions below in paragraph forms and explain them in detail-one to two paragraphs for each question. Thank you.

A. Identify how overreliance on the employment-at-will doctrine can create problems for supervisors and employees.

B. What are the ramifications if companies default to EAW rather than dealing directly with employee conduct problems?