Manager As Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain

Name: Manager As Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain
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ISBN: 9780029187708

ISBN-10: 0029187702

ISBN-13: 9780029187708

Edition: 1987

Authors: David A. Lax, James K. Sebenius

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This fine blend of Harvard scholarship and seasoned judgment is really two books in one. The first develops a sophisticated approach to negotiation for executives, attorneys, diplomats -- indeed, for anyone who bargains or studies its challenges. The second offers a new and compelling vision of the successful manager: as a strong, often subtle negotiator, constantly shaping agreements and informal understandings throughout the complex web of relationships in an organization. Effective managers must be able to reach good formal accords such as contracts, out-of-court settlements, and joint venture agreements. Yet they also have to negotiate with others on whom they depend for results,…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/5/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

David A. Laxis founder and co-director of the Negotiation Roundtable at the Harvard Business School. An Assistant Professor of Business Administration there, he teaches an extremely popular negotiation course. Educated at Princeton and at Harvard, from which he holds a doctorate in statistics, he has written extensively on negotiation. As a principal of The Negotiation Group, Professor Lax frequently acts as a consultant to business and governments. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



Preface


Acknowledgments


The Manager as Negotiator


Negotiation Analysis


The Negotiator's Dilemma: Creating and Claiming Value


Alternatives to Agreement: The Limits of Negotiation


Interests: The Measure of Negotiation


Creating Value, or Where Do Joint Gains Really Come From?


Claiming Value


Managing the Negotiator's Dilemma


The Principles Applied: A Budget Negotiation


Changing the Game: The Evolution of Negotiation


The Approach as a Whole and So-Called Power in Bargaining


Negotiation And Management


What Does Any Manager Have to Worry About?


Negotiating for Purposes, Authority, and Resources: A Manager's Need for a Mandate


Sustaining Agreements


Negotiating in Hierarchies: Direct Management


Agents and Ratification


Negotiating in Networks: Indirect Management


The Manager Is Always in the Middle: Linked Bargains, Internal-External Negotiations, Mediation, and the Essence of Strategy


References


Index