Negotiation

Negotiation Quiz

For each of the following situations, try to see if you can determine whether or not it represents a negotiation. You may wish first to answer all those you find easy and then go back to the others.

  • Buying a rug in a West African market
  • Soliciting a new source of venture capital
  • Trying to capture/kill a warlord in a regional war
  • Trying to injure or ruin a competitor
  • Writing back and forth with someone you do not know on the Internet
  • Meeting your potential in-laws for the first time
  • Giving or receiving commendation and criticism
  • Deciding how the dishes will get done
  • Borrowing a wonderful piece of clothing from a family member
  • Deciding whether to stay late at work to finish up a project
  • Making up, or rebuilding a relationship with someone you love
  • Picking a successor for the CEO of a company where you are on the board
  • Getting a child to go to bed
  • Getting into a class or training program with limited enrollment
  • Courting your Life's Companion
  • Laying off or firing someone
  • Discussing the outsourcing of a business function with the manager of the function
  • Deciding with a family member where to invest a small joint inheritance
  • Soliciting a major gift from a major donor
  • Soliciting bids for the new advertising campaign for your company
  • Talking with your parent(s) this weekend
  • Saying good-by to someone you will not see for a long time
  • Finding an advisor, or a mentor, or a counselor, or a new dentist
  • Discussing with a recruiter the salary and benefits you feel you deserve
  • Trying to get back to sleep when something is worrying you
  • Trying to shake off a stranger on the street who keeps walking with you
  • Getting an extension on a paper or a project
  • Apologizing to someone whose property you unknowingly damaged
  • Seeing someone you dislike and turning away at a party
  • Interviewing a potential baby-sitter
  • Accepting a bribe
  • Turning down a bribe
  • Getting another country to lower a trade barrier
  • Talking anonymously about an unsafe workplace condition with a Hot Line person
  • Meeting a new teammate for the first time
  • Struggling to stay on a diet or exercise plan or give up smoking



Source: Mary Rowe, https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-667-negotiation-and-conflict-management-spring-2001/pages/study-materials/
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