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MGA is not the same as "win-win" (the idea that all parties must, or will, feel delighted at the end of the negotiation) and does not focus on "being nice" or "finding common ground." Rather, it emphasizes careful analysis and good process management.
Negotiation is a strategic discussion that resolves an issue in a way that both parties find acceptable. Individuals should make separate, interactive decisions; and negotiation analysis considers how groups of reasonably bright individuals should and could make joint, collaborative decisions. These theories are interleaved and should be ...
One view of negotiation involves three basic elements: process, behavior, and substance. The process refers to how the parties negotiate: the context of the negotiations, the parties to the negotiations, the tactics used by the parties, and the sequence and stages in which all of these play out.
Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations, a 1994 Harvard Business School Press publication, is a book on negotiation by the authors; Richard E. Walton, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Robert McKersie. [1] The book explains concepts and strategies of negotiation to the reader.
The Program on Negotiation (PON) is a university consortium dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution.As a community of scholars and practitioners, PON serves a unique role in the world negotiation community.
The next four chapters describe the method of principled negotiation which was developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project (part of the Program on Negotiation consortium) by Fisher, Ury, and Patton. [9] The purpose of principled negotiation is to "decide issues on their merits rather than through a haggling process".
Some people may adopt aggressive, coercive, threatening and/or deceptive techniques. This is known as a hard negotiation style; [8] a theoretical example of this is adversarial approach style negotiation. [8] Others may employ a soft style, which is friendly, trusting, compromising, and conflict avoiding. [3]
The basics of negotiation are: [1] Purpose: Without aim, negotiation will lead to wastage of resource, money and time. Plan: It is necessary to make a plan before going for actual negotiation; Without planning, negotiation will fail. Pace: Negotiators try to achieve agreements on points of the negotiations before their concentration reduces.