Transnational Negotiation
What is Negotiation?
Negotiation is communication between two parties to reach an agreement. The process of negotiation is how the parties arrive at the agreement, a combination of written, verbal and nonverbal communication to convey one's interests, offers, and acceptances that make up the content of the negotiated agreement.
Benefits of Negotiation
There are other means of dispute resolution, but the main benefit of negotiation lies with the fact that both parties negotiate and then come to an agreement. Thus, both parties are able to advance their interests, and choose the trade-offs that they are willing to make to achieve an agreement. Both parties can exit the negotiation satisfied either with the agreement that they were able to secure, or knowing that they will not be able to secure an agreement, but that they gave themselves the best opportunity to do so.
Intercultural Negotiation
It is important to understand the culture with which you are negotiating, because to understand that culture will improve communication. A good example is the concept of face – the desire to preserve one's face might cause a person to alter their negotiating strategy. It has to be...
What to a low-context culture is a one-off negotiation about some product or another can mean something completely different to a person from a high-context culture. The high-context culture person might see the negotiation not as a one-off about the sale of an item, but a precursor to a long business relationship (Cai, Wilson & Drake, 2000). In a situation like that, sharking the person on the first deal might mean that the relationship never forms – you make more money today but lose because you failed to understand what the entire point of the negotiation was. So it is important to understand the culture with which you are negotiating because culture is a strong influencer of communication style and negotiating tactics.
Being aware of the often unspoken cultural rules of a country simply makes you a better negotiator, and should be part of…
He must instead keep aware of the accepted verbal and nonverbal communication gestures of other cultures. He should break out of the habit of preferring or revering his own verbal and non-verbal communication over those of others. Cultural relativism views all cultural practices as good. But unlike cultural relativism, effective intercultural communication does not state that al cultural practices as good. Rather the effective intercultural communicator exerts efforts to
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Support for the second hypothesis, that male speakers would be perceived as less cooperative than female speakers, also varied across situations, and the effect was even smaller" (Edwards & Hamilton 2004). Support for the Tannen model only was found after additional research was done, and a new questionnaire was given that scored recipient's self-perception in terms of feminine and masculine characteristics and inculcation into traditional gender roles. Individuals with
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As to the Korean businessmen, they are more paricularists as they confer a personal meaning even to business acts: for instance the business cards that need to be answered in public, the drinking that welcomes one into the group. Their openness to confessions towards performance is another sign of this dimension. With respect to the affective-neutral dimension, the U.S. is representative of the affective dimension as consultants in the case
Typically, difference in expectations between Japanese and American is manifested because of the cultural variables. American believes that it is acceptable to express emotions openly. On the other hand, Japanese culture does not believe in overt expression. Japanese considers the overt expression as unacceptable, and in most cases, Japanese considers the American overt expression as a sign of aggressiveness. Japanese considers endurance and harmony to be important. Japanese believes that