Ethics in Negotiation - Importance, Unethical Behavior, Good Ethics, and Strategies

This presentation discusses ethics in negotiation, the significance of negotiation in ethics, unethical behavior, good negotiation ethics, factors affecting negotiation ethics, strategies for promoting trust, approaches to ethical reasoning, and consequences of unethical conduct.

Ethics in negotiation
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Introduction
• Ethics in negotiation could lead an individual to conduct
appropriate behavior (Gratch, et al., 2016).
• This presentation discusses ethics in the negotiation.
• It also discusses the significance of the of negotiation in the ethics.
• This presentation presents the unethical behavior and good
negotiation ethics.
• It also discusses many important concepts like factors affecting
negotiation ethics, strategies for promoting trust, approaches to
ethical reasoning, and consequences of
unethical conduct.

Definition: Ethics and
negotiation
• Ethics
• Ethics could be determined as the philosophy, which
deals with wrong and right of human matters.
• Negotiation
• Negotiation is the technique in which individual
settle the difference. It is the procedure wherein
people avoid to argument and clash.
• Ethics in negotiation
• Ethics in negotiation is a method that enables an
individual to settle difference and conduct ethics
behavior with others (Gratch, et al., 2016).

The I m p or t a nce O f Neg o t i at i on Et hi c s
• Trust
• Relationship
• Fair
• Honest
• Openness (Menkel-Meadow, and Schneider, 2014).

Unethical behavior
• Negotiation with stranger
• Unethical negotiation could be created by women.
• Religious services could also create unethical
behavior.
• Older person create unethical behavior (Iroham,et
al., 2017).

Good negotiation ethics
• Honesty
• Transparency
• Respect for others (Yadav, et al., 2016).
• Pragmatic approaches

Factors Affecting Negotiation
Ethics
• Past experiences of negotiator
• Incentives
• Relation with third party (Bennett, 2016).
• Power between negotiators and third party

Cont…
• Mode of communication
• Whether or not the negotiator is acting as an agent
• Group and the organizational norms
• Cultural norms (Fleck, et al., 2016).

Strategies for Promoting Trust
• Build mutual benevolence
• Create opportunities for displaying trust
• Demonstrate trustworthiness
• Place the negotiation in a longer term context (Ebner,
2016).

WHAT MOTIVATES UNETHICAL CONDUCT
• Profit
• Competition
• Justice (Chan and 2016).

Factors That Affect A Negotiator To
Behave Unethically
• Demographic Factors
• Personality Differences (Schuessler, 2018).
• Moral Development:
• Pre-Conventional Level:
• Conventional Level:
• Post-Conventional Level:

Four Approaches
to Ethical Reasoning
• End-result ethics
• The appropriateness of a deed that is assessed by
estimating its consequences (Gross, et al., 2017).
• Duty Ethics
• The appropriateness of a deed that is evaluating by
obligation of an individual to adhere to reliable laws, social
standards and consistent principles that illustrates what is
wrong or right

Cont…
• Social contract ethics
• Appropriateness of a deed that is relied on the customs
and norms of a specific community or society (Schuessler,
2018).
• Personality ethics
• The appropriateness of a deed that is relied on one’s own
integrity and moral standards

The Consequences of
Unethical Conduct
• The following factors demonstrates
consequences of the unethical behaviors:
• Decline the trust
• Negative impact on making relationship with
others
• Lead to drop shares prices of organization
(Rankin, 2016).

How Can Negotiators Deal With the
Other Party’s Use of Deception?
• Request probing questions
• Force the other party to untruth or back off
• “Call” the tactic
• Evaluate what an individual demonstrates and
provides support to another party in order to
conduct more honesty behavior
• Respond in kind
• Ignore the tactic (Ho and Lin, 2017).

Conclusion
• It can be concluded that being an ethical negotiator is not
informal.
• It can be evaluated that an individual requires being honest
and trusting to obtain the best outcome (Gross, et al., 2017).
• It can be also summarized that there are different strategies
to promote trust such as Build mutual benevolence, Create
opportunities for displaying trust, Demonstrate
trustworthiness and Place the negotiation in a longer-term
context.
• It can be also recommended that there are four approaches
to ethical reasoning such as End-result ethics, Duty ethics,
Social contract ethics, and Personality ethics (Gross, et al.,
2017).

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