Chapter 6
Chapter 6
2
Factors will impact
your negotiation
1.
Personality attributes.
2. Gender.
3. Communication style.
3
Personality
attributes
✢ Gathering the information about the negotiations it will help you to negotiate
helpfulness, knowing that the person with whom you will negotiate will act
aggressively will help you to prepare and to be able to choose the suitable
4
The personality
dimensions:
1. locus on Control.
2. Self monitoring.
3. Data gathering/ thinking preferences.
4. Decision making/ doing preferences.
5
1. locus of control:
External locus: People who tend to blame their failures on bad luck or other
people.
Ex: I would have gotten an A if my brother woke me up early to study.
Internal locus: They see themselves responsible for the outcomes of their own
actions either negative or positive and their decisions.
✢ Shows more cooperativeness and a greater ability to work with others, internal
locus demonstrates stronger task orientation.
✢ Internal top managers were more to innovate and peruse a new markets.
✢ Internals are willing to do preparations and spending time to plan as they see a
connection between their efforts and the rewards such efforts bring.
6
2. Self Monitoring:
7
3. Data Gathering and
decision making:
✢ Artisans: they are adventure seekers, they value themselves and they
are unconventional bold.
✢ Rationales: They enjoy jobs that demand a high level of expertise and
high standard of competence.
✢ Idealists: enjoy jobs that allow them to support and encourage
others.
Some people tend to talk about ideas, theories beliefs, philosophies. They
always asks why, what, if , what might be, the idealists prefer to brain storm
all the possible reasons.
8
4-Decision making on doing
preferences:
✢ Utilitarian : are concerned with logic and structure and
tend to ignore feelings and neglect relationships building.
9
2. Gender and
negotiation:
✢ Woman: tend to use communication to connect with
11