Labor-management contract negotiations in an electronic meeting room: A case study |
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| Authors: | Erran Carmel Bruce C Herniter Jay F Nunamaker Jr |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Management, Kogod College of Business, The American University, 20016 Washington, DC;(2) Department of Management, University of Hartford, Barney School of Business and Public Administration, 06117 West Hartford, CT;(3) Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, The University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, AZ |
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| Abstract: | We present perhaps the first case study of labor-management contract talks conducted in an electronic meeting room supported by a computer Negotiation Support System (NSS). The organization's union and management representatives spent a total of 57 hours (13 sessions) in the electronic meeting room; their efforts resulted successfully in a contract ratified by both sides. The NSS described comprised three tools from theGroup Systems electronic meeting system and three ad hoc tools. Besides the NSS, three other intervention factors were introduced in tandem with the NSS: new negotiation process techniques, the active involvement of third party mediators, and a unique negotiation setting. The new process techniques were introduced based on the goals of integrative bargaining and the Win-Win techniques. The negotiation process was divided into three distinct stages: strategy, issues, and bargaining. |
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| Keywords: | contract Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS) Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) Group Support Systems (GSS) integrative bargaining labor-management negotiation negotiation support system (NSS) Win-Win labor relations |
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