Business and Commercial Role-Play:

Parking Spaces for Super Computer

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$0.00 – $6.50

Consensus Building Institute, Inc.

Two-party, two-issue scoreable negotiation between an office building owner and commercial tenant over the terms of a lease for parking spaces

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Please note: you must order a copy (a.k.a. license/usage fee) for every person participating in the simulation in your course. This simulation has multiple roles, so you will be unable to complete your purchase without meeting the minimum quantity requirement of copies per role.

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SCENARIO:

Super Computer Corp. just signed its second three-year lease for office space at 100 Blue Chip Street. This office building, managed by Prime Properties, houses the regional offices of several global corporations. Tenga Tenier (Super Computer's office manager) and Rom Rosok (Prime Properties' property manager for 100 Blue Chip Street) are about to enter their annual negotiation over parking spaces.

There is an executive parking lot underneath the office building, but this lot is not large enough to accommodate all of the building's tenants. Prime Properties offers a limited number of "executive" parking spaces in the underground lot, and a larger number of "satellite" parking spaces in a lot that is about ten minutes' walking distance from the building. Because Prime Properties charges the same lease price for executive and satellite parking spaces, tenants want to lease as few satellite and as many executive spaces as possible, while Prime Properties wants to lease as many satellite and as few executive spaces as possible.

Tenga and Ron must negotiate an agreement on two issues: how many parking spaces will Super Computer lease, and how many of those spaces will be in the executive parking lot underneath the office building? Their scores will depend on the final agreement on each of these issues.

 

TEACHING POINTS INCLUDE:

the value of exploring interests; the uses of objective criteria; the effect of aspirations on results; the power of trading across differently-valued issues; and the tension between creating and claiming value.

 

Teacher's Pack (26 pages total) includes:

  • Confidential instructions for Tenga Tenier and Rom Rosok
  • Score sheets for all participants
  • Teaching Note
  • Teaching overheads

Parking Spaces for Super Computer Attributes

Time required: 1-2 hours
Number of participants: 2
Teams involved: No
Agent present: None
Neutral third party present: None
Scoreable: Yes
Teaching notes available: Yes
Non-English version available: German, Japanese
Filed in:
Business and Commercial, Consensus Building Institute, Contracts, Real Estate, Role Simulations
Tags:
agreement, claiming value, interests, negotiate, negotiation, PON