week 8 assignment

Assignment 3: Negotiating for Your Employer

Due Week 8 and worth 150 points  

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 (6-8) 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 (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources. 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:  

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.