When a group wants to achieve a consensus or unanimous decision, the responsibility of the chair is to be constantly attentive to the group process. Identify which of the pointers below for how to chair a multiparty negotiation effectively is not correct.
A) Explicitly describe the role you will take as chair. Assure individual members that they will have an opportunity to make opening statements or other ways of placing their individual concerns and issues on the table.
B) Introduce the agenda or build one based on the group's issues, concerns, and priorities. Be an active gatekeeper.
C) Make logistical arrangements that will help the negotiation process. Listen for interests and commonalities.
D) Introduce unnecessary ground rules or let the parties suggest them to distract. Introduce internal information that will help illuminate the issues and interests.
E) Create or review decision standards and rules. Summarize frequently, particularly when conversation becomes stalled, confused, or tense
Answer: D
Negotiation
- When working to create a new approach that may include aspects of either home culture or adopt practices from a third culture, negotiators are using what approach?
- The "embrace the other party's approach" strategy involves
- "Coordinating adjustment" involves
- "Adapting to the other party's approach" is best used by parties with
- Which of the following lists only joint strategies for cross-cultural negotiations?
- Which of the following strategies should negotiators with a low familiarity with the other culture choose?
- According to Weiss, when choosing a strategy, negotiators should
- According to Graham, which of the following statements would be characteristic of a Japanese negotiator?
- In group-oriented cultures
- Risk-avoiding cultures will
- What consequences do negotiators from high uncertainty-avoidance cultures bring to negotiations?
- Power distance describes
- Power distance describes
- The individualism/collectivism dimension describes
- The "culture-as-shared-value" approach
- Which of the following is not one of Janosik's four ways that culture is used in international negotiation?
- Which of the following factors most influences relative bargaining power?
- Political and legal pluralism can make cross cultural negotiations more complex because
- Which of the following is an immediate context factor in cross-cultural negotiations?
- According to Salacuse, which of the following is not a factor in the environmental context of negotiations?
- We use the term "culture" to refer to the
- There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that women are at a disadvantage in negotiations as compared to male negotiators. The nature of this disadvantage may occur in
- Which of the following are likely to "level the playing field" for women who seem to be at a disadvantage in negotiations?
- Women tend to fare worse on salary negotiations because:
- Identify the one result from among the following empirical findings on gender differences that is not true.