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Advisory for Differing Procurement Approaches
Advisory for Differing Procurement Approaches
The City of Anywhere, USA has two public high schools, both of which need critical classroom expansions and extensive repairs for its aging infrastructure and building conditions. The board of education is tasked with selecting the best procurement and project delivery procedures to get the schools designed and built. The program has not been fully budgeted at this time, but early cost estimates place project costs in the range of $75,000,000. In addition, it has been 20 years since the school district has been involved with a major capital construction program. Furthermore, its previous experience with a PDS has been limited to the traditional design-bid build, lump sum delivery system. The board’s planning committee is very inexperienced with processes related to the design and construction of major school projects. The ad hoc committee is composed of representatives from the faculty, staff, board of education, parents and community persons working with the school district.
The school district’s planning committee has contracted with a local program management (PM) firm to serve as the owner’s representative for the building program. You are the designated project executive for the PM. And while the project is considered a public works program, relatively new state laws allow for a variety of project delivery systems (PDS) to be used to design and construct the building additions and renovations. Procurement options include designbuild-build (DBB), design-build (DB), agency construction management (CM), and construction management at risk (CMR). The initial task for the firm is to fully explain the options (pros and cons) to the planning committee and to make a PDS recommendation. Thus, a recommendation to depart from the traditional DBB method of project delivery will take a well-documented reasoned evaluation and presentation from the PM.
B. Situational Case Study No. 1 Questions
1. The key issue to address is why the school district should depart from the traditional form of project delivery. Inexperienced public owners appropriately are hesitant to take on risks that are not fully understood. Define the pros and cons of each PDS and provide a persuasive reasoning for why or why not the PDS may be appropriate for this project.
2. Finally a consensus needs to be sought by the planning committee and the board of education. They will rely upon the recommendation of the PM to the board of education that they can understand, accept and defend to their constituents. Make a case and recommendation for the PDS that is the most appropriate for the project.
A. Design-Bid-Build
1. Pros
2. Cons
B. Design-Build
1. Pros
2. Cons
C. CM as Agent
1. Pros
2. Cons
D. CM at Risk
1. Pros
2. Cons
E. Project Delivery Recommendation
Organizational Behavior Human Resource Comparative Essay HELP
Organizational Behavior Human Resource Comparative Essay HELP
Prepare a 3000-word comparative case study. Adhere to the following format while preparing the case study.
Choose two well documented case studies of different organizations.
One case study should be based on success story like Apple, Google, Microsoft.
Other case study should focus on organizational failure/project failure etc. like Blueberry, Nokia, Yahoo.
Analyze the organizational structure and culture for both organizations.
What is the mode of communication adopted by both organizations? How do employees interact with each other?
What kind of leadership style these organizations prefer/follow? What is the management style of both organizations?
Explain how the organizational culture, structure and management style effects/relates to the success and failure of the organization?
What is the HR Strategic planning, recruitment and selection strategy, performance/ talent management strategy of both the organizations?
Based on the analysis performed propose suggestions and recommendations (5-6) based on the OBHR concepts learned in the course for both organizations.
Report Requirements
The report must include a title page, table of contents, introduction, multiple supporting body paragraphs, conclusion and list of references.
Use a minimum of 10 references. All references must come from academic journals; additional references may be from trade and practitioner publications or online search engines.
Use APA format when citing literature.
How Does Race Impact Help-Seeking Behaviors for Students with Mental Health Diagnoses?
How Does Race Impact Help-Seeking Behaviors for Students with Mental Health Diagnoses?
Describe/answer the following subjects/questions:
a. How to recruit and select samples (sampling method) for your research? (e.g., systematic
random sampling, snowball sampling, cluster sampling, stratified sampling, etc.)
b. What data collection method are you going to use? (e.g., mail survey, online survey, personal
interview, observation, case studies, secondary data analysis, etc.)? Why you chose this data
collection method and how you would conduct this data collection?
c. What instruments/questionnaires are you going to use to measure the variables/concepts
(independent variable & dependent variable) in your research hypothesis?
*Attach your instrument/questionnaire to measure the variables/concepts. (5 open-ended and
5 closed-ended questions)
Writing
1. The paper must meet APA guidelines and format.
2. The paper should have title and references pages.
3. Page numbers should begin at the title page.
4. The paper should be 3-4 pages in text, excluding title and references pages.
5. On the title page, including title, student name, instructor name, course name, and
submission date