INSTRUCTIONS: Please choose one of the following questions and post an answer/response by Thursday 11:59pm ET. Also please make sure to respond to at least two posts of your classmates and/or the instructor by Sunday 11:59pm ET. To earn full credit for this discussion assignment you need to make three substantive posts (see Discussion Guidelines under Course Home).  Make sure to include references to the course materials in your responses.
 

(1) When a claim is “objectively” true this means that the truth of the claim is not a matter of personal experience or subjective perception.  For instance, your math professor tells you that “1+1=2.” This statement would be an example of an objective truth.  The truth of “1+1=2” does not depend on your own personal knowledge or subjective experience.  Even if you were to disagree with your math professor, all that would mean is that you were wrong.  The statement “1+1=2” remains true regardless of what you think about it.  On the other hand, some things in life are subjectively true.  For instance, your math professor says, “Chocolate ice cream tastes great!”  That would be a subjective truth.  It might be true that chocolate ice cream tastes great to your math professor; however, you might not like the taste of chocolate ice cream at all, so that claim would not be true for you.  Now consider the following claim:  “God exists.”  If God’s existence is objectively true (like 1+1=2), then why does Kierkegaard argue that Truth is “subjectivity”?  For Kierkegaard, is saying “I believe God exists” similar to saying “I believe chocolate that ice cream tastes great”?  Why or why not?  What is the important point that Kierkegaard is trying to make by arguing that Truth is “subjectivity”?  Make sure to support your answer with references to the assigned readings.

(2) Even if you never met your biological mother and father (e.g., both of your parents died before you were old enough to know them or you were adopted as an infant), you objectively know that you must have a biological mother and father.  You objectively believe that you have a mother and father because you realize that if you did not have a biological mother and father, then you would not be here today.  However, knowing that you have a biological mother and father is not the same as having a relationship with them and/or knowing them in a personal manner.  Is the same thing true for God?  Is it enough to believe that God exists (in an objective sense) or is it also important to have a personal experience of God (in a subjective sense)?  When answering this question make sure to include references to the assigned readings.

9-3 Use the project activities that follow to determine the following: 

a. Construct a Gantt chart; indicate the project completion time and slack for each activity.

b. Construct the CPM/PERT network, compute the length of each path in the network, and indicate the critical path.

Need it ASAP, in 2 hours!

Contracts and Procurement; due Wed

Organizations with clear techniques of negotiation of contracts help managers prepare for effective, successful contract negotiation. Techniques in one negotiation may not effectively work well in another.

The president of the Brikris Corporation has assigned you to a negotiation team. You are a part of a special project team that is focused on putting together a training seminar for the development of high-performance negotiation skills for various contract modifications.

As a team, you should consider concepts examined so far in the course and their impact on contract negotiation. Consider the various types of contract modifications and the situations that surround those modifications.

Assignment Guidelines

Step 1

• Each team member must prepare a 1-page Word document with well-developed ideas for best practices of negotiation techniques.
• This document should include recommendations for (at minimum) 4 primary things that are vital for a successful negotiation.
• Explain how that idea will ensure a win-win negotiation.  
• This should be prepared in Word; APA Format with complete References.