LEGL 4600 -Negotiation and ADR
Dr. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander ("Dr. B-A") dawndba@uga.edu
University of Georgia Terry College of Business
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LEGL 4600 -Negotiation and ADR
Dr. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander ("Dr. B-A") dawndba@uga.edu
University of Georgia Terry College of Business
LEGL 4600 –
Negotiation
and ADR
Dr.
Bennett-Alexander
Spring 2008
Tentative Class Schedule
Tu.
1/8 – Introduction; hard/soft exercise (to be collected next class)
Th.
1/10 – Collect hard/soft; listening exercise; Handouts 1, 2, 3, 4, 11,
negotiation sheet
Tu.
1/15 – Finish listening exercise; Role reversal exercise
Th.
1/17 – Dot exercise; Chores
Tu.
1/22 – Wage Negotiation; handouts 5, 6
Th.
1/24 – Continue Wage Negotiation
Tu.
1/29 - Book Contract Negotiation
Th. 1/31 – Cont’d
Tu.
2/5 – Nervous Nuptials Negotiation
Th.
2/6 – Cont’d
Tu.
2/12 – Car Negotiation; Handouts 7, 8
Th.
2/14 – Cont’d
Tu.
2/19 – Student Travel Negotiation
Th.
2/21 – Cont’d
Tu.
2/26 – Frat Cook Negotiation; Handouts 9, 10
Th. 2/28 – Cont’d
Tu.
3/5 – Gay Marriage Negotiation
Th.
3/6 – Cont’d
Tu.
3/11 – Spring Break, No class
Th.
3/13 – Spring Break, No class
Tu.
3/18 – Athletes Negotiation
Th.
3/20 – Cont’d
Tu.
3/25 – Pregnant Pause Negotiation; Handouts 12, 13
Th.
3/27 – Cont’d
Tu.
4/1 – Tribal Lands Negotiation
Th.
4/3 – Cont’d
Tu.
4/8 – Greeks Negotiation
Th.
4/10 – Cont’d
Tu. 4/15 - Owners v. Players (Bucks)
Th.
4/17 – Cont’d ; Journals due
Tu.
4/22 – HOPE Negotiation
Handouts:
- The Art of Negotiation
- Before Your Next Fight, Read This
- The Power of Nice
- The Ten Commandments of Good Communication
- Six Basic Interpersonal Skills for a
Negotiator’s Repertoire
- If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on
Your Pigtails
- Ten Guidelines for Effective Negotiating
- Buyer Beware
- Negotiating Tactics for Legal Services Lawyers
- How to Increase Your Influence
- Compatibility
- The Japanese Negotiation Style
- When Negotiations Fail: Causes of Breakdowns & Tactics for Breaking the Stalemate
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LEGL 4600 - Negotiation and ADR
List
of Notable Class Dates
Spring 2008
Tuesday January 8, 2008 - First day of class.
Thursday January 17 - Negotiation fact situation sheet of paper due
Tuesday and Thursday March 11 and 13 - Spring Break - no class.
Thursday April 17 - Journals collected
Tuesday April 22 - Last day of class.
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LEGL 4600 - Negotiation and ADR
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, Esq.
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Syllabus
Quick Finder: Office & Hours ****Grading*** E-Mail ******* Exams
OBJECTIVE: To teach the process of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution as an integral tool for the workplace in all phases of the business setting.
CLASS TIME: T, Th 9:30-10:45
OFFICE & HOURS: 202 Brooks Hall. T, Th. 7:00-7:45; 11-12, and by appointment. Call (706) 338-2293 for scheduling.
GRADING: The only way to learn to negotiate is by negotiating. Therefore, there are no tests for the class. Rather, you will be given many fact situations which you will be responsible for successfully negotiating in class. You are responsible for keeping a journal which gives detailed insight as to what you are learning as you negotiate your dispute. There is one journal entry due for each day of class. The journals are collected the day before class ends. Points are deducted for failing to show up for an assigned negotiation, turning in assignments late or other things as I deem appropriate, and points added for doing extra assignments as I permit. In judging your negotiating assignments, I will be looking for preparation, effort, creativity, thoroughness, persuasiveness, and presentation.
Attendance: Please know from the very beginning that given the nature of the course, attendance is mandatory. You are allowed only ONE unexcused absence during the semester. If you are not able to handle this requirement, I suggest that you drop the class. Four points are deducted for each unexcused absence over one. If the unexcused absence is on a day that individual negotiating sessions are scheduled for you to participate in, an unexcused absence is 7 points off your final grade rather than four. Yes, this is stiff. The point is, I want you in class.
Absences are only excused if I so permit. Job interviews or related absences are excused absences. If you are going to be interviewing for jobs during this semester, you may want to reconsider taking this course.
Journal entries - The entries should give insight you have gained from the day's class discussion as well as your negotiating experiences. Credit will not be given for mere regurgitation of the day's class. It is the processing of the information that I am interested in seeing. No points will be given for cursory, non-substantive entries. Cursory entries are non-substantive entries that convey no insight or analysis of the event they purport to discuss. The journals are yours to write and may be as personal and uncensored as you wish, since no one will see them except me. Do not write what you think I want to see. You may relate your insights to some way in which class information made you think about an event in your life or something you know about, in a different way. The entries will be collected on Thursday April 17. The journal entries have no set length requirement, but should sufficiently convey your thoughts. Journal entries must:
* be typed
* use 14 point type
* use Times New Roman font
* be double-spaced
* have sequentially numbered pages numbered at the bottom center of each page
* be stapled together at the top, left corner
* not be enclosed in a document protector of any kind, either plastic, card stock or otherwise
* contain a cover page with the student's name and beneath it the words "Negotiation Journal" in the center, middle
Extra
Credit - Students can receive extra points for doing
additional work
in the following ways:
* Attend events relevant to the class, but make sure to clear it with me first. In order to receive credit, turn in to me a brief report on what program you attended, what happened and what you got out of it.
* View movies or television programs in which negotiation or the need for negotiation played a part. You may choose any relevant situation and deal with it appropriately. Turn in to me a brief report on the movie or program, what happened and what you got out of it. That is, if there was a negotiation conducted, discuss it. If there was a conflict in need of negotiation, discuss this and how the matter might have been satisfactorily resolved.
Please notify me of any upcoming program, movie, television show or
other
event that you are aware of that might be relevant to class so I can
notify
your classmates. If you happen to be looking at TV or a movie and you
think it
might be appropriate for extra credit, and you don't have the time to
call me,
contact me as soon as you can to ask if it will count as extra credit.
Point Deduction - Assignments are due when scheduled. If you do not turn in something by its deadline, one point is deducted for each day (including weekends) that I do not receive it. The day you turn it in is not counted in the point deduction. The points deducted will be that many fewer points in your point pot. You will also have four points deducted from your final grade for each day you are absent over one. If it is a day on which you have an individual negotiation scheduled, seven points are deducted from your final grade rather than four. These absences may not be made up by extra credit. Attendance is mandatory.
Assigned
The grading scale, unless stated otherwise, is 100-94 A, 93-90 A-, 89-87 B+, 86-84 B, 80-83 B-, 79-77 C+, 76-74 C, 73-70 C-, 69-65 D, 64 and below, F.
The last day of class is Tuesday April 22.
COMMENTS:
This is a fun and challenging class.
There will be much discussion of issues and
class
participation is important. Get the numbers of a few students you can
call to
find out what happened if you were absent. Check below also.
Required photo: I will hand out 4x6 note cards on the first day of class. Please return the card to me by Thursday January 17, with the items below on it. Please return the cards promptly, as a point will be deducted from your total pot of points for each day the card is past the deadline when returned to me.
* a clear, recent photo of you stapled neatly to the upper left hand corner.
* the first letter of your last name printed legibly in the upper right hand corner (i.e., B)
* your last name and first and middle initial, printed legibly, on the first line (i.e., Bennett-Alexander, D.D.)
* skip one line, print on the next your full name legibly on the next line, first name first (i.e., Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander)
* skip one line, print on the next the class number, time, quarter and year (i.e., LEGL 4600, 9:30 a.m., Spring 2006)
* skip one line, print your present address and phone number and on the next line, your permanent address and phone number. Please notify me of any changes during the semester.
* skip one line, clearly print your e-mail address. You MUST have an e-mail account.
* the photo should be stapled to the upper left corner of the card and the writing next to it on the right. Do not write anything on the card so that the photo covers it.
News Articles: Written news articles are due by end of class on Thursday April 3 for all those who were not able to sign up on the list of oral presentations. This is a mandatory assignment. If you signed up, failure to present your article as scheduled will result in the loss of your six points. If you had to do your article in written form, submit to me a COPY of the article, and no more than one double-spaced, typewritten page telling what the article was about and how you think it could have been benefitted by negotiation or better negotiation.
Further
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreements Without Giving In, by Fisher, Ury & Patton, Penguin Books
Negotiation:
Getting Together: Building Relationships As We Negotiate, by Fisher & Brown, BR 637.N4F58
Negotiating Rationally, by Bazerman & Neale, BF 637.N4B39
The Negotiating Game: How To Get What You Want, by Karass, BF 637.N4K28
The Art and Science of Negotiation, by Raiffa, BF 637.N4R34
Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation to Cooperation, by Ury BF N4U79
Designing Conflict Management Systems, by Costantino & Merchant, HD 42.C68
Getting Disputes Resolved: Designing Systems to Cut the Costs of Conflict, by Ury, Brett, et al., HD 42.U79
Added Value Negotiating, by Albrecht & Albrecht, HD 58.6.A43
The Manager as Negotiator, by Lax & Sebenius, HD 58.6.L39
The Human Side of Negotiations, by Morrison & Claero, HD 58.6.M66
Everything's Negotiable: When You Know How to Play the Game, by Skopec & Kiely, HD 58.6.S59
Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict, by Fisher, et al., JX 4473.F57
E-Mail, the Web, and the listserv: I communicate changes between class days by e-mailing students through the listserv. Make sure you sign onto the listserv, and do it as soon as possible! You get on it by subscribing to it. Don't forget to take yourself off of it by unsubscribing after class is over. Students are required to have an e-mail account either through your UGA or some other source. E-mail accounts are free for enrolled students and can be set up in minutes.
I have set up a listserv for the class entitled 4600DBA. By using it, we can all communicate with each other by sending one e-mail which then goes out to everyone in the class. It also allows me to send everyone an e-mail at the same time. In order to get on the listserv, which you are required to do for the class, send an e-mail to:
listserv@listserv.uga.edu
Make the text of the e-mail ONLY the following command:
subscribe 4600DBA your first name your last name
For example, mine would say:
subscribe 4600DBA Dawn Bennett-Alexander
You should then receive notification that they received your request and that you must respond the way it tells you to within 24 hours or you will be dropped. Make sure to do this last step or you will not be on the listserv and will not receive e-mails. After class is over, make sure to follow the directions you were given upon subscribing on how to unsubscribe. Generally you do it just as you would for subscribing, except you would write Unsubscribe rather than subscribe in the e-mail to the listserv.
Recommendations: Students often ask me to write recommendations for them. I don't mind doing it if I know you well enough to do so. That means more than you being enrolled in my class of 100+ students. Even if I know you, in order to help me make the recommendation more than a general one, I need information from you. If you wish to have me write a recommendation, give me the following:
* the latest copy of your transcript
* your phone number and e-mail address
* explicit instructions as to where and to whom the recommendation should be sent. Do not include postage or pre-postaged or pre-addressed envelopes
* the deadline for the recommendation
* any necessary forms I need from the place needing the recommendation. Make sure to fill in the part for which you are responsible. Keep in mind that when you have a choice of whether you want to check the box for whether you wish to waive your right to see the recommendation, you should check the box that says you waive your right to do so. If you do not, and you elect to say you wish to see the recommendation, those evaluating your recommendation will give very little weight to the recommendation, no matter how good it may be. They believe that if the recommender knows the applicant may see the recommendation, the recommender will not be as honest as necessary, and the recommendation, in their view, is virtually useless.
* a Word e-mail attachment of a draft letter of recommendation about yourself, written by you
* a brief, but full typed essay from you telling me things about yourself, your family, your goals, ambitions, and motivations, that might be helpful in painting a picture of you that you may think is inappropriate for you to do yourself. The information could include such things as obstacles you have had to overcome to go to school, particular family circumstances that may make you unique, etc. I don't want the essay you write for the application, and I don't want a recitation of your grades. I want something that makes you more than a one-dimensional person.
Please deliver the requested items to me as a package, rather than piecemeal. Piecemeal things tend to be misplaced.
Writing a good recommendation takes time and effort. In order to help me do this favor for you, please follow my instructions precisely. Failure to do so will reslut in my not doing the recommendation. After all, if you cannot follow my simple instructions, I am not comfortable in recommending you to others.
Make sure you give me enough time to work on the recommendation. The longer the better. If it is brought to me at the last minute, you run the risk of me turning you down, or your recommendation being late.
Recording: Lectures may not be recorded without my permission. Also, you do NOT have my permission to use notes from my lectures for commercial lecture note purposes.
Cell Phones and other electronic
devices:
Please do not use them in class. Period.
Students are responsible for all my postings on the Web or e-mails from the listserv.
All academic dishonesty matters are
considered
serious and will be handled in accordance with the University's Office
of
Judicial Programs. Click here for
to view
the University's policy. Don't cheat.
The professor reserves the right to modify the syllabus as necessary.
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LEGL 4600 - Negotiation and ADR
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, Esq.
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Article Dates
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