Negotiators May Need to Communicate with Another Person in the Presence

Negotiators may need to communicate with another person in the presence of someone who should not understand their message.Ideally,the negotiator wants to communicate information to his or her group in a way that the counterparty does not understand or make the group aware that a surreptitious communication is taking place.This communication situation is called the:

A) hidden table
B) multiple audience problem
C) questionable ethics problem
D) passive misrepresentation