Max H. Bazerman's work centers on decision-making, negotiation, and ethics. His research delves into the nuances of human judgment, exploring how individuals and organizations can enhance their decision-making processes. Through his extensive publications, he contributes to a deeper understanding of cognitive biases and their impact on behavior. Bazerman's approach bridges theoretical insights with practical implications, offering readers valuable perspectives on the complexities of modern decision-making.
The book offers a modern approach to negotiation, addressing the impact of recent global changes such as the pandemic, political divides, and digital communication. It emphasizes the need to adapt traditional negotiation tactics to new contexts, including cultural differences and virtual platforms. Max Bazerman, a renowned expert, provides insights on how to navigate these challenges while offering essential techniques for both beginners and seasoned negotiators. This guide serves as a comprehensive toolkit for effective negotiation in today's evolving landscape.
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of the psychological and strategic factors that can lead negotiators to make suboptimal decisions. Drawing on a wide range of case studies and real-world examples, the authors highlight common traps and pitfalls that negotiators should avoid, and provide practical advice for achieving better outcomes. Business professionals and students of negotiation will find this book essential reading.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the behavior of arbitrators in conventional and final-offer arbitration. Through empirical research, the book identifies the key factors that influence the behavior of arbitrators and the outcomes of their decisions. The book also examines the implications of these findings for the theory and practice of labor relations and dispute resolution.
"What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, the community, politics, and beyond. It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. And, whether we're aware of it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses, organizations, communities, politics, and more.Complicit tells compelling stories of those who enabled the Theranos and WeWork scandals, the opioid crisis, the sexual abuse that led to the #MeToo movement, and the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack. The book describes seven different behavioral profiles that can lead to complicity in wrongdoing, ranging from true partners to those who unknowingly benefit from systemic privilege, including white privilege, and it tells the story of Bazerman's own brushes with complicity. Complicit also offers concrete and detailed solutions, describing how individuals, leaders, and organizations can more effectively prevent complicity.By challenging the notion that a few bad apples are responsible for society's ills, Complicit implicates us all-and offers a path for creating a more ethical world"-- Provided by publisher
"Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman discusses how we can make more ethical choices by reframing our intentions toward being better rather than being perfect"--
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In this book the authors, both leading business ethicists examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be. Explaining why traditional approaches to ethics don't work, the book considers how blind spots like ethical fading, the removal of ethics from the decision making process, have led to tragedies and scandals such as the Challenger space shuttle disaster, steroid use in Major League Baseball, the crash in the financial markets, and the energy crisis. The authors demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior. Distinguishing our "should self" (the person who knows what is correct) from our "want self" (the person who ends up making decisions), the authors point out ethical sinkholes that create questionable actions. Suggesting innovative individual and group tactics for improving human judgment, the book shows how to secure a place for ethics in workplaces, institutions, and daily lives
"From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation. Whether you've 'seen it all' or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations?whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or improving your next salary offer ... This book gets 'down and dirty.' It gives you detailed strategies, including talking points that work in the real world even when the other side is hostile, unethical, or more powerful. When you finish it, you will already have an action plan for your next negotiation. You will know what to do and why. You will also begin building your own reputation as a negotiation genius." --publisher's description
From two of the leading teachers of executive education in the United States comes this complete guide to the nuts-and-bolds skills, proven strategies, and creative techniques necessary to succeed in any negotiation.
Most events that catch us by surprise are both predictable and preventable, but we consistently miss (or ignore) the warning signs This book shows why such “predictable surprises” put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this that society and the workplace are filled with disasters in the making that we could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a positive, proactive resolution to it.
