Required Reference Material: Be sure to apply and cite sources within your initial post response and also reference the sources at the end of your response (using APA formatting). Lagace, M. (2000, May 23). The emerging art of negotiation. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: A First Look at Faculty Research. Retrieved from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/1517.html. In Chapter 3, Stringer (2007) goes into considerable detail about obtaining involvement of stakeholders and building a preliminary picture of organizational circumstances. Toward the end of the Chapter, he describes seven factors that are essential to creating and maintaining credibility. Without doubt, experienced action research practitioners would tell you that projects that succeeded addressed each of these seven concepts in meaningful ways. Projects that did not do well usually ignored or treated casually one or more of these factors. As the feasibility of an AR project is being explored and socially constructed, relevant people are deciding how to position themselves relative to the project and, most particularly, the person or persons designated to lead the project. Without doubt, these early negotiations have a huge bearing on how the project will proceed. Sometimes this process involves overt and hotly contested negotiations. More typically, the negotiations occur in a more subtle and indirect way. It is crucial, as an action researcher, you analyze group and interpersonal processes in order to advance the credibility of negotiations 1.In your response, identify at least one of the seven factors to create and maintain credibility that would be most difficult to address in your organization. 2.Analyze the situation by using Stringer's seven factors as the primary consideration. 3.Explain how the credibility of an AR project be impacted if this factor was not handled effectively. 4.Identify a critically important overt or implicit negotiation that would arise in your organization around the role of the action research project leader, if a high profile AR project was being considered. 5.Explain how you would prepare to address this type of challenge through application of negotiation. Be sure to apply and cite sources within your initial post response and also reference the sources at the end of your response (using APA formatting).

Required Reference Material: Be sure to apply and cite sources within your initial post response and also reference the sources at the end of your response (using APA formatting). Lagace, M. (2000, May 23). The emerging art of negotiation. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: A First Look at Faculty Research. Retrieved from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/1517.html. In Chapter 3, Stringer (2007) goes into considerable detail about obtaining involvement of stakeholders and building a preliminary picture of organizational circumstances. Toward the end of the Chapter, he describes seven factors that are essential to creating and maintaining credibility. Without doubt, experienced action research practitioners would tell you that projects that succeeded addressed each of these seven concepts in meaningful ways. Projects that did not do well usually ignored or treated casually one or more of these factors. As the feasibility of an AR project is being explored and socially constructed, relevant people are deciding how to position themselves relative to the project and, most particularly, the person or persons designated to lead the project. Without doubt, these early negotiations have a huge bearing on how the project will proceed. Sometimes this process involves overt and hotly contested negotiations. More typically, the negotiations occur in a more subtle and indirect way. It is crucial, as an action researcher, you analyze group and interpersonal processes in order to advance the credibility of negotiations 1.In your response, identify at least one of the seven factors to create and maintain credibility that would be most difficult to address in your organization. 2.Analyze the situation by using Stringer's seven factors as the primary consideration. 3.Explain how the credibility of an AR project be impacted if this factor was not handled effectively. 4.Identify a critically important overt or implicit negotiation that would arise in your organization around the role of the action research project leader, if a high profile AR project was being considered. 5.Explain how you would prepare to address this type of challenge through application of negotiation. Be sure to apply and cite sources within your initial post response and also reference the sources at the end of your response (using APA formatting).