week 3 phone conversation.....

Well week three has come very quickly but there is still a lot of work to be done! Today i talked with Alba from my group and i played the role of the employer. She played the role of the employee and tried to persuade me to give her a raise. We put her in a setting of being a part-time employee working in customer service. She gave a pretty good argument but the most outstanding factor was that she claimed to be bi-lingual. This was my deciding factor as why i should give her the raise. All the other things she mentioned i would expect out of a good employee but that is a very special skill to have. I decided if she were to get a raise that she would take on more responsibility which she agreed to. I then expected for her to work full time and provide another employee that could also speak multiple languages that she must manage. I added a few extra sick days and we made a deal. I think it is very important to have someone with those skills. With the expanding customers we must be able to reach all of them. So it seemed like a win win since we both got what we wanted/needed. All in all we had a fun simulation and it was good to work on my negotiation skills!