Miami School District Negotiation 1 Miami School District Negotiation University of Phoenix Inthiravanh Amphonephong MGT/445 Carlos Campos August 06, 2012 Miami School District Negotiation 2 Miami School District Relocating children in different school due to reconstructing the school building is not only affecting the children individual, but also affect their families, their municipal, and the school itself. The stakeholders are very concerning, because of high volume of compliant from student guardian. Choose a strategy the bargain and reevaluating the ethics and culture effective is very relevant for the circumstances. This paper will explain the detail of the negotiation strategy that largesse the boards provisions to redraw school boundaries, identity of the stakeholders, and how it affect our ethics and culture strategy. Miami School District must identify the stakeholder concerns regarding the changes. The school project is the students, teachers, families, staff, and the community. The school main stakeholders in this case are mainly the student themself, because of changes made them fall apart from having new instructor, campus, and classmates. Changes will affect not only the student of being depart from their comfort of family but parents will experience of new environment for their children. The teachers and staff will experience class less because of redistribution of students. The community also will experience the effect of whether or not the location will have students in the school district. Quality of education is the number one main concern for the stakeholder towards schools. “To discourse this concern, the Miami School District can refer to studies such as Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio) whereas negatively raising the student-to-teacher ratio affects the quality of education.” (HEROS, Inc., 2009). The reputation of the school relies on the overcrowded classes that have been increasing as a result of the school’s highest quality. Student guardian prefers to live in certain Miami School District Negotiation 3 neighborhood to make sure their children go to certain school district. Certain parents are forcing their child to go to different school, which disturbing the guardian attention of initially relocating to the new school district. The school principal did inform all parents that this will not however influence the new boundaries of their children reaching his/her educational goals. Miami school second concern is from the student, guardian, and teachers of increased traveling time to the new district school. Likewise, many parents are working and single parents. Parents take this distance seriously, because not only affecting their working time but also affecting them to hire a day cares school. “The Miami-Dade County School District conducted a study that concluded that longer school days do not affect a student’s ability to learn.” (anonymous, 2009). The school district will have to make an effort to compromise and become more aware of the cultural and differences among their stakeholders. “Failure to comprehend the culture of a person or group in negotiation can be a foremost mistake.” (Bauer, 2009). The school will also debate by reminding guardian of the agreement assumption that culture are playing good role of education in students. Some families are willing to move if they wish for their children to go to a certain school that no longer in the community area. The school also has to inform the community that it comprehends can be instance when selecting real estate. The social effect also play an important affective on the student. Student today are adjusted to social media changes more often than older students. Changes to adapt routines can develop stress on student. Student relationship at their present school may suffocated by urgent changes. Whatever parents accepted at one particular school may eventually affect another, or even an athlete student changes to new school may longer superlative at the new district. Miami School District Negotiation 4 “One can define ethics as, “Broadly applied social standards for what is right or wrong in a particular situation or a process for setting those.” (Lewicki, Saunders, & Barry, 2006, p. 236). The ethics and culture within the school district has responsibility to act ethically during the process of changes. If however, the school board acts unethical and unprofessional, it could lead to disciplinary and removal actions. Losing the trust in community can also causes negative effective on the school district also. The diversity culture of the school district can affect many way in the district communicate the changes, and also of how it reacts to the concerns of the main stakeholder, which is the student. In conclusion, this negotiation summary into the Miami school district plan and offered negotiation strategy depend on the stakeholder concerns, ethics, and culture. No matter of the outcome of the whole rezoning issue there is, the unhappy guardian, parents, and others will have to change schools and required to travel farther. This issue is not a avoid situation of increase populations. The solution doesn’t exist but it is through the comprehension of negotiation and imminent that can make proper decision for final. Miami School District Negotiation 5 Reference Anonymous, (2009). Longer school days and year trials yield different results. District Administration, Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. Bauer, T., (2009). Organizational behavior. Retrieved August 26, 2011 from http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/node/1450 HEROS, Inc., (2009). Project Star. Retrieved August 26, 2011 from http://www.heros-inc.org/star.html