Negotiation is inherently a communicative activity. Negotiators share information, make arguments, and advocate for their interests as they work through disagreements over terms for settlements. Communicatively competent negotiators are skilled in argumentation, listening, questioning, emotion management, facework, and framing/reframing. Conflict is inevitable in organizations because of competing interests. As organizations become flatter and decentralized, people need negotiation skills so they may participate meaningfully in managing conflicts without resorting to institutional or managerial intervention. Approaches to bargaining communication include models that highlight specific aspects of traditional communication models, examine the effects of communication on settlements, and treat negotiations as a constitutive element of organizational reality. An emerging area of research examines how people negotiate via email, instant messages, texts, and videoconferences.