ABSTRACT

Practical Business Negotiation introduces university students to business negotiation as practiced in the globalized business world. There are no other textbooks that take on this topic in depth with non-native English speakers in mind. Current textbooks about negotiation tend to be dense, academic and less than practical in content. Many are demotivating to students who are not easily able to consume a few hundred pages of academic writing.

This textbook takes a step by step approach, providing bite-sized presentations of negotiation concepts with practical exercises that include linguistic as well as negotiation content. Explanations are reinforced with practical questions and problem solving and recent examples drawn from a business world that includes much more than North America and Europe.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

What do you want to get from negotiations?

chapter 2|15 pages

First connections

chapter 3|11 pages

Core negotiation concepts

chapter 4|15 pages

Structure and planning

chapter 5|18 pages

Some cultural considerations

chapter 6|28 pages

Talking the talk

chapter 7|23 pages

Negotiation tactics

chapter 8|13 pages

Win at home before you go

chapter 9|13 pages

What kind of negotiator . . .

chapter 10|11 pages

Final phase

chapter 11|4 pages

Review from a high altitude