Systems thinking approach in collective bargaining negotiations and conflict resolution

世界受到意见分歧和有争议的分歧的困扰，这些分歧往往涉及新出现的和迅速变化的复杂冲突模式。最近的全球经济危机突显了集体谈判和谈判在规范工会和雇主之间的雇用期限和工作条件方面的盛行和挑战。因此，对严格、正式的冲突和谈判分析技术的需求比以往任何时候都更加迫切。要使这些技术稳健、实用和有洞察力，这些技术必须基于感知和系统思维方法，这种方法全面地看待社会互动，并同时考虑对各种选择的战略评估以及复杂的心理和社会学背景。 这项拟议研究的目标是利用博弈论、图论和广泛的其他学科--包括决策科学和认知和情感神经科学--的跨学科系统设计原理，开发新的多参与者、多目标和非对称谈判分析方法，以改进工程管理实践和战略决策。因此，将开发正式的博弈论谈判和谈判模型，其中包括决策的概念和相互关联的方面--情感、感知和战略--并将其应用于重要的工业和贸易劳工和工会谈判，如涉及CUPE和CAW-Canada的谈判。

The world is beleaguered by differences in opinion and contentious disagreements that often involve emergent and rapidly changing complex patterns of conflict. The recent global economic crisis highlighted the prevalence and challenges of collective bargaining and negotiation in regulating the term of employment and condition of work between unions and employers. The need for rigorous, formal conflict and negotiation analysis techniques, therefore, is more pressing than ever. To be robust, practical, and insightful such techniques must be based on perceptual and systems thinking approach that takes a holistic view of social interactions and considers both the strategic assessment of options and the complex psychological and sociological contexts. The objective of this proposed research is to develop new multiple participant-multiple objective and asymmetrical negotiation analysis methodologies using interdisciplinary systems design principles from game theory, graph theory, and a wide range of other disciplines--including decision sciences, and cognitive and affective neurosciences--for improving engineering management practices and strategic decision making. Hence, formal, game-theoretic bargaining and negotiation models that integrate conceptual and interrelated dimensions of decision making--emotion, perception, and strategy--will be developed and applied to important industrial and trade labour and union bargaining negotiations, such as those involving CUPE and CAW-Canada.