Assignment: Negotiating for Your Employer
Imagine that you have been put in charge of a large team that is negotiating a company merger with 2 other hypothetical multinational companies that have offices located around the globe. Your task is to design a negotiation strategy to deal with the negotiation issues involved with merging these multinational companies. For this assignment, pick two countries that will represent the corporate cultures of the multinational companies. One of the countries must not be from Europe.
Write a six to eight page paper in which you:
1. Examine the issues that might influence a negotiation within a diverse cultural environment. Recommend a negotiation strategy that would work best in that situation.
2. Analyze the dynamics of multiparty negotiations and their role in your strategy.
3. Predict potential for conflicts that can occur when negotiating within a diverse cultural workplace. Propose suggestions to mitigate these foreseen conflicts.
4. Determine the benefits cultural conflict can bring to a multinational company.
5. Use at least two quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.