Readiness to changes as one of educational values of innovation-oriented procurement

Abstract

The article deals with the essential characteristics of the willingness of contract managers to professional activities in the procurement system, the possibility of their change in the learning process and some challenges connected from educational values’ influence point of view. The purpose of this article is consideration of the existing approaches to understanding of the phenomenon of contract managers’ training from the point of view of value orientations, which are the basis for business activity in conditions of innovative development of the global economy. The results of the conducted research on the readiness to changes in procurement are presented in the study. They characterize the economic and social environment in procurement in Russia at present and in Samara region of the Russian Federation, exactly. Readiness to changes is crucial for creation of a new mode of thinking of the modern business community. By results of the conducted research, the authors offered a model of this integrative characteristic, which can be the basis for purposeful process of training and retraining of contract managers for development of the procurement and, furthermore, economics of the region and country in the context of requirements of the innovative economy.