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Procurement Management – Contracts”

Please respond to the following discussion topic and submit it to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If you haven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

Describe the three broad categories of contracts. Give examples of three different procurement circumstances where use of a contract from each category is appropriate.

At least 200 words

Discussion 1: Shared Practice: Feed Forward Activity

Giving and receiving feedback in a formal performance appraisal can be a task that managers consider unpleasant and employees view as unhelpful. The added paperwork, the challenges of appropriately incentivizing performance with pay or promotion, the lack of actionable feedback given or received: all of these cause managers and their charges to view traditional feedback paradigms with cynicism and skepticism. Is there another way to integrate feedback into the workplace without dampening enthusiasm?

On his website, Marshall Goldsmith discusses some of the limitations of traditional feedback: “it focuses on the past, on what has already occurred—not on the infinite variety of opportunities that can happen in the future. As such, feedback can be limited and static, as opposed to expansive and dynamic” (Goldsmith, 2002). In response to the many limitations he identifies in the feedback process, he has developed an alternative: feedforward. In this Shared Practice, you will have the opportunity to experiment with the feedforward method and examine its potential effectiveness.

Then think about your goals and consider three questions:

• What should I stop doing?
• What could I start doing?
• What might I want to do differently?

Finally, consider the benefits, implications, or consequences to stopping, starting, or changing the behaviors you thought about.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 2

Post a description of one behavior that you would like to change in your professional life—one that significantly impacts how you manage or relate to others—and briefly describe this behavior in your post. Cite all references including the reading below.

READING:

http://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/try-feed…

Imagine you are writing exam questions for an algebra course. You want to write questions that include finding the zeros of polynomials. To balance the difficulty level of the test’s questions, you decide to include two different types of questions, as described here:

• Question #1: A polynomial of degree at least 3 where all the zeros are positive whole numbers
• Question #2: A polynomial of degree at least 3 where one or more of the roots are fractions

Find two polynomials for the two described questions. Explain how you know each question satisfies the requirements stated. What approach did you use to find these polynomials?