Assignment 3: Managing the Contractor-Customer Relationship
Due Week 10 and worth 165 points
Your CEO realized that in order to complete the various high-profile projects, your organization will need to rely on resources outside of the organization. Your firm typically does not rely on external resources so this will be a new adventure 

Write an 8-10 page paper in which you do the following:
1.    Discuss the ethical issues that can arise in contracting.
2.    Analyze and discuss the benefits that can arise with contracting.
3.    Describe the importance of the communication process in the contractor customer relationship.
4.    Describe the risks and responsibilities in the contractor customer relationship.
5.    Go to https://research.strayer.edu to locate at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
    Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS (Strayer Writing Standards). Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
    Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
    Review the risks and responsibilities of the contractor-customer relationship, including potential ethical issues, benefits, and the importance of communication.

You will choose a topic and argue one side of the topic, but also include the counterargument to remain unbiased in your writing. Remember to review the fallacies to avoid these in your argument. The essay will be objective, so do not use I.

The Final Argumentative Essay will follow APA format. Including an APA title page. At the end of the document, beginning on a separate page, put your references, the word References is at the very top of the page, with references listed alphabetically by author, with a hanging indent of .5 inches. APA format also means using 12 point font, times new roman type, and the double-spacing the entire paper.  The Final Argumentative Essay is five to six pages of text. This does not include your title or reference page.

This Final Argumentative Essay will include at least four academic, scholarly sources to support your claim. Scholarly resources are found using the Wahlstrom Library online database. Be sure to search for journal articles that have been peer-reviewed and have been published in the past five years. Links to websites are not considered scholarly. Though website information may be used in your paper if properly cited and in addition to the four scholarly resources.

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