Mapping Personality Traits and Gender-Based Stereotypes on Perceived Negotiation Skills

Numrata Moty, Manish Putteeraj, Jhoti Somanah () and Krishnee Adnarain-Appadoo
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Numrata Moty: School of Health Sciences, University of Technology Mauritius, La Tour Koenig 11134, Mauritius
Manish Putteeraj: School of Health Sciences, University of Technology Mauritius, La Tour Koenig 11134, Mauritius
Jhoti Somanah: School of Health Sciences, University of Technology Mauritius, La Tour Koenig 11134, Mauritius
Krishnee Adnarain-Appadoo: Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius, Reduit 80837, Mauritius

Businesses, 2024, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Implementing effective dispute resolution strategies such as negotiation has proved to be quite effective whenever there is a divergence of interest between two conflicting groups. This study aims to see if gender-based stereotypes or specific personality traits can positively or negatively influence negotiation skills in an attempt to improve the negotiation process, whereby individuals could be trained to adopt specific behaviors to obtain more favorable negotiation results. Using the expectancy violation theory (EVT) to analyze how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations whilst negotiating, a quantitative study was carried out among legal officers working in private, public, and parastatal organizations in Mauritius. The sample size, 270, was calculated based on a population size of 899 as per records of the Mauritius Bar Council. The results demonstrate most legal officers were equipped with good negotiation skills, with no significant difference between males and females (U = 1138.50, p > 0.05), while a high level of neuroticism was indicative of poor negotiation skills (τb = −0.167, p > 0.05). These findings demonstrate that participants agreed that their negotiation skills were influenced in gender-dominated meetings which align with the principles of the EVT, the violation of certain expected negotiation behavior based on gender impact negotiation outcomes. Since negotiation skills were significantly associated with negotiation outcomes (χ2(4) = 37.963, p < 0.05), this provides pointers to businesses on how to improve and optimize negotiation outcomes by choosing a negotiator with the most apt personality traits.

Keywords: expectancy violation theory; gender-based stereotypes; negotiation; personality traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 D0 D4 D6 D7 D8 D9 E0 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 F0 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 G0 G1 G2 H0 J0 K2 L0 L1 L2 M0 M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 N0 N1 N2 O0 O1 P0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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