Bringing mutual gains bargaining to labor negotiations: The role of trust, understanding, and control
研究信任、理解与控制如何影响谈判者对互利共赢谈判（MGB）的支持，发现信任是最关键因素，且对劳方比资方更重要。
Abstract Mutual gains bargaining (MGB) is an approach to labor negotiations that has gained widespread popularity among consultants in recent years. Yet little is known about what factors affect negotiator support for MGB. In this article longitudinal survey data from three negotiations are examined to find out the degree to which trust, understanding, and control contribute to support for MGB. The results for labor and management negotiators are compared, as well as the findings before, during, and after negotiations. This exploratory study revealed several findings, including: (1) the one factor that is consistently most important is trust, (2) trust is more important to labor negotiators than it is to management negotiators, and (3) early in negotiations, understanding of the tactical implications of MGB (rather than of MGB “ideas”) is most important. These issues should be addressed during MGB training, and during broader, nontraining interventions into labor–management relations. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.