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Xutong Huang

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The research topic is a business negotiation, specializing in language-centered activities. This project will be done to help reduce language problems that are experienced in international or intercultural business negotiations. According to my research, many business negotiations are likely to be unsuccessful due to language barriers. From the questionnaires I viewed online, members of most negotiation teams have challenges handling different languages and cultures, thus the negotiation failing (East, 2018). The research was done online, and this project will be carried out based on information collected online. Some companies have posted about negotiation challenges they experience, and they are mostly as a result of language barriers. In this research, the study population are employees or busines owners who have taken part in business negotiations, and especially those who have experienced negotiation challenges or failures due to language barriers.

This project meets the IRB exception requirements because it has zero risks to the participants and the companies involved in the research. The project's research question is how the language barrier has affected business negotiation. The methodology includes collecting information online (TEAM, 2020). The information was collected from various negotiation articles and business webpages. In contrast, some were collected through interviews. I went through various questionnaires posted online and went through some collected from employees individually members of different negotiation teams and business owners and managers. I then compared the information collected from the articles and questionnaires. I later analyzed the collected information and decided to do this project and help people overcome such challenges. This project is anthropologically exciting because it will help solve challenges related to an individual's language and culture that affect the negotiation. This project will help negotiators understand different people with different languages and cultures, and learn how to deal with them and carry out a successful negotiation.

References

East, C. (2018). Institutional Review Board (IRB). In Developing a Successful Clinical Research Program (pp. 69-76). Springer, Cham.

TEAM, S. (2020). Project Proposal. Nature, 458(7237), 438.