The document discusses the importance of maintaining relationships in negotiations, using a case study of an employee, Michelle, and her supervisor, Nikki, who navigate a scheduling dispute. It also examines economic factors such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Philippines, highlighting its growth, investment appeal, and the anticipated positive trends in GDP through 2025. Additionally, it addresses sustainability in business practices and the need for government policies to adapt to changing economic landscapes.

1. Module 05 Course Project - Preserving the Relationship
From the beginning of this course, you've learned how an
integrative bargaining approach to a negotiation is preferable
when the parties want to preserve a relationship. In our project
scenario, Michelle wants to continue working at the call center,
and more importantly wants to maintain the good working
relationship that she has cultivated with her boss, Nikki.
Neither party wants the schedule dispute to derail that
relationship. Nikki knows that Michelle has started bad
mouthing her to the other employees because she thinks that
Nikki's approach to scheduling people based on seniority was a
lazy rather than fair. Michelle's emotions were running high
when she did this, but unfortunately the remarks started to
damage Nikki's reputation as being a good supervisor. As a
result, the relationship between the supervisor and employee is
now strained.
For this final part of the project you will address the following
questions in your paper:
1. Analyze and discuss the critical role of reputation, trust, and
fairness as it pertains to this situation.
2. After meeting and discussing the issue, the two women were
able to work out a schedule for Michelle that would solve her
daycare issues and would be fair to the other employees. Now
that the issue has been resolved, based on your readings,
synthesize a plan for how the two women can work towards
rebuilding their relationship.
In your paper, follow standard mechanics in grammar,
punctuation, and spelling.
Philippines (GDP)
Paxton Boyd II;

2. Macroeconomics;
AIU;
18March20;
Introduction
Currently am working with a food processing and selling
company best in Dallas, Texas, USA.
The firm deals with perishable and non-perishable products.
The products include; milk, coffee, tea, meat, fish, fruits,
cereals, cheese, rice, flour, and wheat products.
The firm was founded after seizing the opportunity that the
world’s population is ever growing and food products are basic
needs that humans cannot do without.
This is a clear indication that the market share is adequate
enough to generate profits.
Therefore, in our expansion plans, we take the gross domestic
product metric as a key determinant when in investing a
particular nation.
This is because it will show us how the market incomes and
standards of living are growing with time.
GDP
Gross domestic value shows the aggregate value of what a
nation produces.
It indicates an economy’s size
It helps eradicate double accounting
It is given by;
Personal spending plus investments by businesses plus the
expenditure by the government, plus exports minus imports.
The two types of GDP are real and nominal.
GDP growth rates change over time.
The aggregate value generated from the GDP considers all the

3. country’s production regardless of whether they are produced by
locals or foreigners.
The real GDP is gotten by removing inflation from the equation
because the economy may seem to be prospering and yet it is
not. The real GDP is calculated by use of a price deflator. The
nominal GDP includes the basic measurements that involve
prices. Normally, real GDP is less than the nominal GDP.
A negative growth rate indicates a recession while too high
growth rates create inflation.
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GDP in Philippines
Philippines has a population of 105 million.
The yearly GDP rates of increase is 6.7%
It is an investor attracting country.
The businesses have been growing over the years.
The investment levels in the country has ranked it has one of
the top five foreign investment hub.
A huge percentage of Philippines general population speak
English. This is an advantage to our business because most of
our employees are English speakers. However, we also have
translators to help us in nations we have or we are planning to
invest and yet they do not speak English.
Over the last few years, the country has attracted many
investors due to its high GDP growth rates that stand at 6.7% on
annual basis.
As per the investment inflows from foreigners in Asia as of
2018, Philippine was ranked 5th. The investors aim at capturing
the middle class that is really growing.

4. The commercial process outsources section has enabled well
developed communication and IT systems in the nation and this
will help in customer assistance and entry of data.
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Change of Philippines GDP over years according to the world
bank
The country’s GDP has grown positively over the years.
According to the world bank, the 2019 GDP was 355.5 billion
dollars
The value has grown since 2010 positively.
This is as illustrated by the graph besides. (Kimberly, 2020).
The values are expected to grow even more from 2020 onwards.
The firm having an annual growth rate of 6.7% in the GDP, it
has grown its GDP over the years as the figures from the graph
indicate. Of the world’s economy, Philippines’ GDP makes
0.29% of the economy.
The GDP indicates the country’s national income and the output
in the economy.
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GDP Forecasts
The country’s GDP is expected to grow through to 2020
In the long run, the GDP will still be growing positively that is
by the year 2025,
The graph besides indicates the forecasts that have been made
since the year 2010 to the year 2025.
The country has achieved these estimates and surpassed most of
them by huge figures.
The 2020 Philippines’ GDP is expected to stand at 375.00

5. billion US dollars. The 2021 GDP is expected to be at 390.00
billion US dollars while this will rise to 420.00 billion US
dollars in the year 2022.
The 2025 GDP is expected to be at; 450.00 billion US dollars
and above.
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Actual Trends in Philippines GDP over the years
Between the years; 160 – 2019, the country’s average GDP is
86.17 billion US dollars.
The firm between that period had a lowest GDP in 1962.
The highest GDP experienced over that span of time was
experienced in 2019.
This is illustrated by the graph besides.
The averaged 1960 to 2019 GDP average for the nation was
86.17 billion US dollars.
It recorded the highest value in 2019 which was 355.50 billion
US dollars and the lowest value was experienced in 1962 with a
value of 4.40 billion US dollars in GDP between that value.
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Philippines Versus USA
The USA is our home business country and it has a better GDP
than the Philippines.
Even the growth Of the GDP over the years has been higher.
Therefore, the consumption patterns will change in both
countries. (Praneeth, & Zara, 2019).
The growth of the GDP on annual basis shows a growing pattern
of consumption.
The GDP growth will depend on various factors.

6. The USA has more favorable domestic factors that favor the
higher GDP it has as compared to Philippines. The macro
factors are very key determinants of GDP growth.
For instance, china’s old population will affect the dividends to
the population but the wages will grow, migration to the cities
will also grow, the saving rates in house holds will decrease due
to increased consumption. India’s expanding middle class will
grow the consumption patterns.
The per capita income disposable will grow in the Philippines,
Malaysia and Indonesia due to growing labor forces. The growth
in technology will ensure effective and efficient delivery of
goods and services as they are demanded.
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Global largest Economies
Due to the changes in consumer profiles, consumption is
growing in various nations.
The future consumers will be so keen on what they are having.
The domestic firms also play a key role in the growth of a
country’s GDP.
As a result, in overall, china, the USA, India, japan, and
Germany make the largest economies in the world respectively
as of the year 2018 as well as the projected 2019 GDP. (Era,
2018).
Consumer profiles changes over time have led to growth in the
GDPs of many nations. Future consumers will be more keen on
the sustainability, health and personal needs. The shopping
convenience also matters a lot. The influence from the firms and
the social communities will have less impact on the purchasing
power of consumers.
The local industries will help in disrupting the local markets
which is a good thing.
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7. Questions to Consider in Asia before Investment
What the future looks like?
What are the sustainability levels?
What are the customers needs?
What are the data handling procedures?
How can the firm be better than the competitors?
There are various considerations to be done before investing in
Philippines. A future strategy should be developed such that the
firms operations in Philippine will be long lived. The business
models to be established should be the ones that ensure that
there are competitive advantages to be utilized in the future.
The tastes and preferences of the customers and their aggregate
should be met or else we will lose market to the competitors.
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Transformation in the Job Market
The Asian governments are working towards;
Eradication of poor infrastructure, poverty levels and obstacles
on the path of their growths
this will affect the job market and a transformation will be
experienced.
Employment rates will grow in many industries.
Some industries that are labor intensive will have low
employment levels.
As many governments in the Asia pacific nations are striving
towards eradication of poverty and developing their
infrastructure systems, the job market is transforming too. Due
to the digital changes across the world, job market has
experienced shifts in various ways. In some industries like
healthcare due to increase in the older population will grow the
employment levels, while labor intensive industries like

8. manufacturing will experience reduction in employment levels.
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Sustainability Focus
Business sustainability is a key factor to consider before an
investments are made.
The effects of the sustainability will be felt by various
economy stakeholder.
Investors will have to play their.
The business sectors are also shifting.
Sustainability has various impacts on the society, economy and
the environment. This has accelerated NGOs and governments
agendas on development issues. Some sectors like the health,
equality, and manufacturing will expand positively.
Most investors in Asia are moving away from primary industries
like gas and oil to renewables to address issues of societal and
environmental needs.
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Government Balance
The future is changing so should the government settings.
The government laws and policies should be favorable or else
their GDPs will deteriorate. (Israel, 2019)>
Some programs like education systems should be reformed.
The technologies and the employment creation opportunities
should be balanced.
The future is changing and the governments should be ready to
face and accommodate the kind of change that is coming and
evolving each day.
Government policies and regulations should favor investors
with trade reforms that will promote sustainable social and
financial growth in advocating for positive partnerships.

9. Education reforms to instill skill based education in graduates
will enable them perform greatly in the market place.
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Importance of GDP
Measures the size of economies.
It measures the standards of living of people in a given country.
It creates employment opportunities.
It attracts investors to a country which is a great sign in terms
of meeting customers demands and offering employment
opportunities.
Generation of more revenues for the government.
Growth rates that are positive indicate positively growing
economies. This is mostly shown by real GDPs. When
measured, clarity is gained on whether the economy is having
production of more services and goods or if the economy may
be contracting due to reduced outputs.
Increased production means that purchases being made are also
high because there is enough money. It also indicates that firm
will need more labor for production and thus creation of
employment opportunities. Increased investments will indicate
that the government will be generating more taxes from the
business thus offering the best services to its citizens.
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Conclusion
GDP is a key measure to use in determining any kind of
investment.
The metric from the above analysis clearly indicates that it
takes into account a lot of economic factors that are crucial in
determining the country’s standards of living.
Higher GDPs show that the incomes generated by the people are
high and thus more purchases will be made.
Since our business is dealing with basic needs; food staffs, then

10. increased incomes to the people will mean that more food staffs
will be needed.
Better standards of living contribute to high population because
fertility rates are high and this means increased market share.
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Kimberly, A. (2020). Gross domestic product and how it affects
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