PPMP20011 Unit Portfolio: Week 7 Disputes and Negotiation

This assignment is a student's portfolio for Week 7 of the PPMP20011 unit, focusing on the topics of disputes, claims, variations, and arbitration. The portfolio analyzes the consequences of these issues in the workplace, strategies for avoiding them, and the implications of not addressing them. It explores the relevance of researchers' perspectives, the validation of research, and the adequacy of sources for commercial negotiation. The student evaluates the assumptions and results of research, considers the application of negotiation concepts, and relates the week's topic to previous ones. The portfolio also examines the relevance of different research perspectives and provides a list of references.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20011 Unit Portfolio for Week 7
Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
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including
reading
samples
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the unit
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unit reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
Week 7 Topic:
Disputes, Claims,
Variations, and
Arbitration.
Collaborative
Project
Procurement
Arrangements
(2015) by Derek
H. T. Walker and
Beverly M. Lloyd
Walker;
Cheung S.O., &
and Chow P.T.
2011.
Withdrawal in
Construction
Project Dispute
Negotiation.
Journal of
Construction
Engineering and
Management.
Volume 137,
Issue 12
There are
different
problems
generated at the
workplace such
as disputes
between two
parties and the
claims that they
demand, the
different
variation of
conflict and the
arbitration
needed to
mitigate such
conflict.
1. What is the Consequence of Disputes, Claims, Variations,
and Arbitration?
Disputes gives rise to abruption of work culture. This
leads to various claims by the parties indulged in the
disputes. The consequence of such claims often leads to
variation of opinion among the involved the parties.
However, such variations are harmful for the workplace
and thus arbitration is used that leads to mitigation of the
conflict.
2. How can we Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and
Arbitration?
Disputes can be avoided by maintaining a calm
composure while having discussions. This can easily be
achieved by having people with sound judgement
participate in the discussions. Lack of dispute leads to
elimination in the number of claims. Therefore, there
would not be any variations and the need for arbitration
is thus completely avoided.
3. What happens if we don’t Avoid Disputes, Claims,
Variations, and Arbitration?
Conflict of interest and ethics give rise to disputes.
Disputes can hence disrupt the work flow. Continuous
disputes can permanently damage the damage the work
culture of an organization. Additional effort is thus wasted
on claims, variations and arbitration. Therefore, if we do
not avoid them, they would be responsible for
Goldberg, S. B.,
Sander, F. E.,
Rogers, N. H., &
Cole, S. R. (2014).
Dispute resolution:
Negotiation,
mediation and other
processes. Wolters
Kluwer Law &
Business.
Zhang, S. B., Fu, Y.
F., Gao, Y., &
Zheng, X. D. (2016).
Influence of trust and
contract on dispute
negotiation
behavioral strategy in
construction
subcontracting.
Journal of
Management in
Engineering, 32(4),
04016001.
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decrementing the quality of work and productivity.
4. Does the World View of the Researchers Matter?
The world view as seen by the researchers is important,
as they take into account a wide variety of data and
scenarios and then analyse the data to provide us with
the most structures knowledge of dispute negotiation.
5. Has the research been adequately Validated?
The research has been validated quite adequately. The
researchers have utilized various scenarios pertaining to
negotiation and hence such accurate analysis can only be
performed through accurate validation.
6. Are the sources adequate for the researchers?
The sources have proved to be adequate for the
researchers. However, some more real-life scenarios
would have proved to be helpful in scenarios such as
these where the problem, that is, negotiation and dispute
settlement Is very common the corporate and business
world.
7. Are they adequate for us and our topic of Commercial
Negotiation?
The sources are not adequate for us and for the study of
Commercial Negotiation. This is because more real-life
successful scenarios about successful negotiation would
have provided us with more insight in how to successfully
negotiate. The source of data is only based on the
construction industry in Hong Kong. Negotiators in
various other countries and different sectors might use
different techniques for negotiation.
Merrills, J. G.
(2017). International
dispute settlement.
Cambridge
university press.
Ware, S. (2016).
Principles of
alternative dispute
resolution. West
Academic.
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topics
including
reading
samples
Learning
outcomes of
the unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior
unit reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
8. Are the assumptions in Cheung & Chow’s research and
hypotheses reasonable?
The assumptions states that the negotiator must have
knowledge of the matter over which the dispute has
taken place and the person must also be stable
emotionally. These qualities is desirable in a negotiator,
however assuming that such qualities are present in a
negotiator is fairly unreasonable.
9. Are the results of the true and false Hypotheses
believable in your experience?
In my experience, the results of true hypothesis are
believable as it is based on data collected from genuine
sources. However, the results of false hypothesis are not
believable as the sources of such hypothesis rea=mins
unidentified and therefore cannot be trusted.
10. Do the ideas in Chapter 5 help in structuring your
thoughts around Commercial Project Negotiation?
Yes, the ideas do help in structuring my thoughts that aid
in commercial project negotiation. The different levels of
negotiation are properly analysed through various data
that has been collected for the research.
11. How does this week’s topic relate to the previous weeks
topics?
This week’s topic is a continuation of the content on
negotiation that we have studied so far. Negotiation is an
important aspect of the corporate and the business world
and the skills of negotiation Is also required for settling
disputes.
Alfredson, T., &
Cungu, A. (2008).
Negotiation Theory
and Practice, A
Review of the
Literature. Prepared
for the Food and
Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations,
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including
reading
samples
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outcomes of
the unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior
unit reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
12. How relevant are the thoughts of Alfredson & Cungu from
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in the context of this chapter? Or are we looking
at completely different ideas?
The thoughts provided by Cungu and Alfrdson are
relevant in our study of negotiation. However, these
authors have focussed on the requirement of negotiation
in the agriculture and the food industry in United Nations,
whereas the previous results were on construction
industry in Hong Kong.
FAO.
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References
Alfredson, T., & Cungu, A. (2008). Negotiation Theory and Practice, A Review of the Literature. Prepared for the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, FAO.
Goldberg, S. B., Sander, F. E., Rogers, N. H., & Cole, S. R. (2014). Dispute resolution: Negotiation, mediation and other processes. Wolters
Kluwer Law & Business.
Merrills, J. G. (2017). International dispute settlement. Cambridge university press.
Ware, S. (2016). Principles of alternative dispute resolution. West Academic.
Zhang, S. B., Fu, Y. F., Gao, Y., & Zheng, X. D. (2016). Influence of trust and contract on dispute negotiation behavioral strategy in
construction subcontracting. Journal of Management in Engineering, 32(4), 04016001.
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