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by Debanhi Valdez 4 years ago

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Understanding Yourself and How That Impacts Negotiation

The dynamics of negotiation can be significantly influenced by various personal attributes and characteristics. Gender differences reveal that women tend to excel in integrative negotiations that emphasize long-term collaboration, while men often perform better in distributive negotiations, which are more competitive.

Understanding Yourself and How That Impacts Negotiation

Understanding Yourself and How That Impacts Negotiation

Uniqueness dimensions

Communication style
Assertive

Fairness, directness, honesty, tact, and sensitivity, and involves speaking up for your rights and taking into account the rights and feelings of others

Aggressive

Exerting control over others, humiliating others, dominating, being pushy, always needing to be right, using absolute terms, and blaming others

Passive

Indirect, to avoid conflict, be easily persuaded/bullied, and be overly concerned about pleasing other

Gender
Men

They may have the edge in distributive negotiations, and may be seen as too competitive and unsympathetic to build collaborative relationships

Women

They may have the edge in integrative negotiations focusing on building long-term collaborative relationships among negotiators

Personality attributes
Decision-making/doing preferences

Cooperatives (Idealists and Guardians)

Focus on harmony and values, often giving into the others' wishes to keep the peace

Utilitarians (Rationals and Artisans)

Concerned with with logic and structure and tend to ignore feelings and neglect relationship building

Data-gathering/thinking preferences

Temperament Sorter four temperaments

Idealists

They enjoy jobs that allow them to support and encourage others

Rationals

They enjoy jobs that demand a high level of expertise and high standards in competence

Guardians

They prefer jobs that demand responsibility

Artisans

They prefer jobs where they can troubleshoot

Self-monitoring

Tendency to adjust our behavior relative to the changing demands of social situations

Locus of control

Internals

They believe they have control over their actions

Externals

Tend to view fate or luck rather than personal effort