Online+Assignment+(May13th+2011)

**Date: May/13/2011**

 * Team Lugnuts! **


 * 1. what is your topic? Conflict and Negotiation Management (Chapter 15) (Done by Lang) **

**3. provide some background information about the business (just start on it but not due until final project is due, as is the case with numbers 6 and 7) (Done by Aya) **
- The United States Department of State is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States. As stated by the Department of States, its purpose includes keeping the public informed about U.S. foreign policy and relations with other countries and assisting U.S. businesses in the international marketplace. The mission statement of the Department of State is to "advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system".

**4. what topics/theories will you cover to explain the interesting/challenging/successful phenomenon going on in the company?**
====**-** the company (the department of state) has several conflicts that the chapter mentions. some of the challenges the department of state has are; conflict management- saving face and dealing with other countries and companies to abide by regulations, direct management of conflict and dealing with differnet combinations it is force to take to succeffully solve problem and other future problems, and the internal conflict of finding ethical ways to achieve their agenda and making their policy be more win-lose than win-win with opposing relationships. we will also discuss their role as a third party negotiator in providing resolutions in external conflict to find merits of the others needs and resolving internal dissatisfaction. ** (Done by Yeltzin) **====

Negotiation Strategies-Yeltzin
====**6. discuss in what ways some of the theories relate to the company, and in what ways some of the theories DO NOT relate to the company (there needs to be both as not every theory you choose will be exactly fitting to the company.) (Does not need to be done yet) **====