Week 9 Discussion: Contracting and Globalization

Contracting and Globalization

Many public and nonprofit managers and leaders are seeking innovative solutions to minimize the costs of operations while providing quality public services. One way to do this is through contracting services such as information technology, billing, and so forth. Organizations operating globally must ensure that managers and leaders continuously hone communication and leadership skills to work effectively with different cultures. Leaders involved in domestic contracting must also learn new skills in order to achieve desired results from outside entities. Although leaders in government organizations do not contract as much internationally as for-profit organizations, public and nonprofit organizations are also affected by the increasingly diverse populations surrounding their organizations and the availability of information on how others in the world govern.

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In this Discussion, you analyze various implications that contracting and globalization have on public and/or nonprofit leaders.

For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how globalization influences effective leadership. Think about competitive advantages and barriers associated with globalization.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 a description of at least three implications of contracting for public and/or nonprofit managers and leaders. Then analyze the implications of globalization for public and/or nonprofit managers and leaders. Provide specific examples.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and other current literature in the Walden Library.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.