Negotiation Report Pakistani Prunes Essay

The case is almost a negotiation with a antagonist to buy Pakistani prunes in order to use them to remedy lives. In fact, being a world leader of genetic plan processes, I need Pakistani prunes to work on people. However, my direct competitor needs Pakistani prunes too and we fall in to find a cud ahead the day after.The outcome has been buying fifty-fifty in the shortstop term. In fact, we agreed to share the especial(a) resources on the short term, and thence find an otherwise agreement 5 years after because each(prenominal) 5 years there are plenteousnesss of changes give thanks to turn over of researches and so on we decided during the auction to offer 2 millions as our set-back offer, and to make our maximum as 4 millions. I thought that it was a trusty share because we could each extradite jalopys of lives and keep a faithful account. However, Dr Sanchez and I verbalise me how much(prenominal) we were able to spend, and at this issue I should lose reali se that I had much more business leader than Dr Sanchez and that maybe I would be able to buy a pocketable more prunes than him in order to have an advantage. This outcome is fin every last(predicate)y not as satisfactory as it could be because I knew that I had much more m hotshoty to spend and I could be able to be much more effective. However, in this slur that was an integrative negotiation situation, the lift out thing could be to cooperate in order to both coax at the end. So the outcome is satisfactory even if it could be go for me if I decided to compete and take all the prunes yet that was not fair in my opinion because we were defending the alike(p) cause.We first discussed intimately the cause we were defending, astir(predicate) why do we need the fruit, what we are doing with. We discussed about the fact that we both need prunes to save lives so we play on emotions of the other party. Then, I said that maybe it could be a good idea to share in order to keep our good reputation and that we are complementary organization and for that reason maybe it could be wagerer to both continue our activities than to compete and fail to save several(prenominal) lives. Then, before finding an agreement to how much we go forth each buy, Dr Sanchez told me how much he was able to spend on the prunes. At this time, he asked me to do fifty-fifty, I agreed on that statement because I thought that he will spend all his money and I will save some if I need it in the future. The other issue was to agree on a short term and a long-term agreement because thanks to researches and progress, things are changing each five years. So we agreed on a fifty-fifty share in the sort term but we also signed to review our agreement in few years, depending on the progress and changes. My strategy was firstly to try to know more about the other partys ambitions, ends, strategy etc. Dr Sanchez told me a lot about what he precious to do with prunes, how much he wanted to spen d, what he wanted in the short term and long-term since the theme of the discussion so I decided to trust what he said to me, even if I was maybe wrong doing that, I had the feeling that he was trustful, he was open to me and didnt seem to lie. His strategy was to expose the all situation in order to obtain the maximum he could have from me. I think he knew that he had a really limited budget and that the best thing would be to cooperate and not to compete. The minute moments has been firstly the moment when he told how much he had to spend on it because he gave me an primary(prenominal) information, the second one has been when I learnt about his goals because I could analyse the long-term and short-term strategies we had to use and I was able to list that we had the same goals, we were acting for the same cause and we had positive feelings so this situation could be an integrative situation so a win-win situation, and the last one has been the agreements we agreed on.This case was very interesting and has been very important for me because I did some mistakes but thanks to thank I learnt a lot about negotiation and integrative negotiation situation. The first mistake has been when we determine the interests. In fact, I didnt realise that we were not interested in the same part of the prune, if I realised that, we would be able to maximise our profits. So we fail in telling our interests. However, the good thing is that we had the same goal (save lives), and we were trustful in each other. Since the beginning we had positive feelings towards each other so each of us told the trust and we wanted to share, cooperate and stand by each other because we directly saw that cooperate will be better than compete if we wanted to act together for the same and goodcause. In my opinion, the best skill I applied during this case was to identify the positive feelings there were between us, and the emotions we exchanged about the causes we defended. However, I have t o be careful about feelings and truth because maybe, the other party could be much more dishonest and I could loose everything. The most important thing I learnt is that cooperating could be a very good deal in this kind of cases when it concern health, peoples safety etc. because we can do much more positive things when we are devil than when we are alone. However, I have to keep in mind, even if I did well by sharing and cooperating, that we failed by identifying that we didnt need the same part of the fruit, and that is a shame because we will be able to save half of the lives we could be able to do