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Arthur Hangtough Case

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The party I represented was Mr. Arthur Hangtough, 58 years old, has been employed by Enterprise Manufacturing Corporation (EMC) for 15 years. Mr. Hangtough has been the vice president for personnel and labor relations for the last four years. The negotiation approach I used begin with me first creating a friendly environment with Mr. Hardline (Counsel for ELM) then I pinpointed the actions my office was willing to bring light to such as breach of contract, age discrimination, wrongful termination, failure for EMC to stick to Employee Relations Law, and a comment regarding the IRS “smelling the blood.” After this point, and having described both sides position, I let Mr. Hardline initiate the first pension offer, which he started at $50,000. I then said my client was ready to go to court and bring forward the above mentioned claims to any appropriate government agency for thorough review. Furthermore, I mentioned to Mr. Hardline my client had requested I bring a lawsuit forward for $1,000,000 if he didn’t receive a fair offer. At this point it was already 3:10 p.m. and we were rushed to make it back to class in time, so I convinced the opposing party we should settle rather than come back empty handed, and so, he upped his offer to $100,000. By this time, I had secured a generous pension, scored way above what my client was satisfied with receiving in terms of his pension, so yes, I would say I was successful. Ii. What I learned from this negotiation was that either my partner didn’t do his readings in advance or was playing me like a fool because I had to explain the whole story to the guy, which obviously took most of our time that we could …show more content…

poor negotiators are as follows: knowing your material well, keeping it friendly (professional, but not confrontational), presenting the facts and letting the other party put there offer on the table first, before making any

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