Business+Broncos

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Team Members
Martin Legaspi Yi-Juo Wu (Eileen) Ryan Aguilar Joanna Espinosa

Group Project
Walmart / Conflict and Negotiation

Meetings
Thursday mornings (8:00AM)

5/19 - general planning and overview of project (everyone attended)
Read ch 15 prior to meeting Agenda: Discuss video plan Divide up concepts Discuss presentation

5/26 -
Prepare questions prior to meeting Agenda: 9:00am Skype meeting with instructor Filming

5/30- 3:00P.M. Skype Meeting

Walmart Background Information
Walmart is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company was the world's largest public corporation in 2010 by revenue and continues to grow. Walmart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. Seeing how Walmart is such a huge corporation it would inevitably need to deal with certain problems and conflicts within the business. Lately, that is exactly what Walmart has had to do. Within the last 20 years, many different lawsuits have been filed against Walmart, everything from the terrible working conditions to health insurance, and child labor violations to illegal immigrants. Those are just to name a few concerning their employees, there have also been countless lawsuits dealing with Walmarts production and importing process. (Feel free to add anything that needs to be added) (RYAN)

An example of a recent lawsuit against Wal-Mart is the case of an employee getting fired for legally using medical marijuana for his brain tumor and cancer. ([])

Topics and Theories
In the chapter it discusses the different types of conflict that can happen within a business so I feel that we should cover all the types of conflict and use Walmart to show how conflict can be solved.

__Topics__
Causes of conflict Types of conflict Levels of conflict Conflict management Negotiation strategies

__Theories__

 * //Conflict//**- occurs when parties disagree over substantive issues or when emotional antagonisms create friction between them.
 * //Negotiation//**- is the process of making joint decisions when the parties involved have different preferences.

__**Who will be responsible for discussing what Topics and Theories?**__
Ryan- I will discuss what conflicts are and what causes them Martin- negotiation Joanna- I will discuss the levels of conflict Eileen- I will discuss that Negotiation strategies
 * this is just an idea, as soon as we have the whole presentation set we will decide who is doing what parts**

__**Preliminary Ideas**__
(Put any ideas you may have here. Put your name too so we know who provided the ideas) So will we use the above case"An example of a recent lawsuit against Wal-Mart is the case of an employee getting fired for legally using medical marijuana for his brain tumor and cancer." to discuss about negotiaiton strategies or we can find other cases about Wal-Mart to support on different topics or finding one case happen within business about Wal-Mart? Using the case studies, just making the way of our presentation the same as last presented, but add the vedio. (Eileen)

Video
I want the video to be an action movie trailer. We'll take the idea of conflict and negotiation and ramp it up with action movie cliches. I already have ideas on the scenes and writing, but I want to run the idea through everyone else. Yes, it is ridiculous, but it should serve as an attention grabber for our presentation. (Martin)

Presentation
We talked a little bit about how we were going to structure the presentation on wed 5/11. We were going to explain the concepts and provide examples that involve Walmart. These ideas came from Ryan, so correct me if I messed up on the details. (Martin)

__Presentation Outline__PPT (Joanna) Video (Joanna)
 * Slide 1: def. of conflict
 * Slide 2: causes of conflict including culture differences
 * Slide 3: background of Wal-Mart
 * Slide 4: include Wal-Mart and a case conflict within them
 * Slide 5: types of conflict including functional & dysfunctional conflict
 * Slide 6: levels of conflict
 * Slide 7: stages of conflict (pix 15.2 & explanation)
 * Slide 8: indirect & direct management approaches (include figure 15.3) include one case of Wal-Mart for indirect & direct approach
 * Slide 9: def. of negotiation
 * Slide 10: negotiation goals & outcomes
 * Slide 11: negotiation strategies: distributive & integrative negotiation
 * Slide 12: Third-Party roles in negotiation: arbitration
 * Intro of group, chp, & company
 * Fiction motion trailer of group members
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">2mins.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Boss and emp. conflict over pay raise <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">à emp. gets mad at boss so decides to take another emp. hostage <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">à boss brings in arbitrator <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">à which we begin our ppt. presentation with diff. types of conflict and levels and negotiation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scene 1: boss denying pay raise, study group room as an office
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scene 2: arbitrator talking about conflict, in car or Starbucks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scene 3: hostage pleading, park
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scene 4: worker questioning situation, park
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scene 5: blood scene, park
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Ryan: boss
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Martin: worker
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Eileen: hostage
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Joanna: arbitrator

After video Ryan starts presentation info Eileen Joanna Martin
 * __PPT ROLES (Joanna)__**
 * Def of conflict
 * Causes (culture difference)
 * Background of Wal-Mart
 * Intro a case of Wal-Mart
 * Types of conflict
 * Level of conflict
 * Stages of conflict
 * Indirect & direct management approach
 * Relating it to the case
 * Def of negotiation
 * Negotiation goals & outcomes
 * Negotiation strategies: distributive & integrative negotiation
 * Third-party roles

**Five Things ( in-class discussion with all group members):**

 * 1) Divide the work (**we will divide the work once we have the ppt done)
 * 2) Research in indivual part
 * 3) Set the deadline for each part of work
 * 4) make a vedio
 * 5) collect all parts of work together and practice before the presentation date( Eileen)

Filming Schedule
as of 5/25/11 Scene 0 - Boss denying upset worker's raise. Location: on campus, just need a room with a desk. Who: Me and Ryan in character and Joanna as cameraman. When: Thursday after meeting.

Scene 1 part 1 - Fail montage as described above. Location: On campus, just need an empty hallway. Who: Me and Joanna in character and Ryan as cameraman. When: Thursday after meeting.

Scene 1 part 2 - Fail montage again. Location: An empty room, anywhere on campus will do. Who: Me and Ryan in character and Joanna as cameraman. When: Thursday after meeting.

Scene 2 - Arbitrator and boss discuss plan of action. Location: Either a moving car or a parked car in the lot of a Walmart. Must be outside campus due to use of props. Who: Ryan and Eileen in character and me as cameraman. When: Friday, whenever we're all available.

Scene 3 - Coworker pleading to upset worker. Location: A place with a wall and quiet. Must be outside of campus due to use of props. Who: Me and Joanna in character and Eileen as cameraman. When: Friday, meet up at 10:30.

Scene 4 - Arbitrator and upset worker face off. Location: A room, quiet set, outside campus due to prop use. Who: Me and Eileen in character and whoever is available for camera duty. When: Friday (or whenever 3 of us can meet)

Scene 5- Upset worker with bleeding fist. This one I'll film by myself unless something changes.