Negotiation
Interests vs. Positions
Negotiation Strategies: Definitions
Distributive Strategy: Claiming all the profit or the maximum share for oneself – winning it all.
Integrative Strategy: Creating value (expanding the pie) and finding solutions that best fit the needs of all or most parties – especially over time.
Mixed-Motive Strategy: Expanding the pie and meeting the needs of all or most parties as much as possible while claiming an appropriate share.
Negotiation Styles – Typology #1: Definitions
Competitive Style: To try to do better than all others.
Cooperative Style: To try to be sure that the feelings of all are properly dealt with.
Independent Style: To try to find the best possible outcome regardless of the achievements and feelings of others.
Negotiation Styles – Typology #2: Definitions
Competitive Style: To try to gain all there is to gain.
Accommodative Style: To be willing to yield all there is to yield.
Avoiding Style: To try to stay out of negotiation.
Compromising Style: To try to split the difference or find an intermediate point according to some principle.
Collaborative Style: To try to find the maximum possible gain for both parties - by careful exploration of the interests of all parties -and often by enlarging the pie.
Revengeful Style: To try to injure the other.
Self-Injurious Style: To act so as to injure oneself.
Revengeful and Self-Injurious Style: To try to injure the other and also act so as to injure oneself.