Presentation - Air Mauritius Crisis

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INTRODUCTION

RIVERS VS DIRECTION:
VIOLENTES JERKS AT AIR MAURITIUS
The case study analyses the conflict management
strategies & resolution techniques, effective
communications and negotiations skills that could
have been helpful and used to avoid the crisis that
strike Air Mauritius.

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IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEMS
 Mismanagement and unhappy pilots
 Communication problem – led to a group of pilots
being absent all at the same time
 Wrong negotiation medium
 Even worst conflict resolution techniques

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CONSEQUENCES OF PROBLEM
 Angry management & unhappy pilots
 Absent pilots and cancelled flights
 Angry passengers
 Immediate employment termination of pilots
 Megh pillay being fired
 Loss of Rs 123M in market capitalization
 The European media interest

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SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Personality clashes and differences in values and perceptions
 CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Different approaches to deal with the incompatibilities
 NEGOTIATION
 Process use to reach an agreement and resolve conflict
 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Transfer of information from a source to a receiver

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CONFLICT RESOLUTION APPROACHES
 Win-Lose Approach
competition, dominance, aggression, strategies, threat, –
whatever works is acceptable, two parties, one winner, in
long run everyone loses.
 Lose- Lose Strategy
simplest of compromises, splitting the difference or smooth
over difficulties in as painless a way as possible
 Win-Win Approach
conscious and systematic attempt to maximize the goals of
both parties. Seen as a problem to be solved rather than a
war to be won
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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
 Face to face Communication
It’s not always just what you say. It’s also how you “say” it.
 Listening Skills
It is also about the receiver’s attention to listen
 Written Communication
Oral communication
 Inter Cultural Communication
culture or subculture

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NEGOTIATION SKILLS & APPROCHES
 Collaboration
Maximizing everyone’s benefit
 Compromise
Giving some aspects of one’s desired outcomes
 Accommodation
Sort of concession
 Avoidance
Being nonchalant & play deaf ear

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CONCLUSION
 Conflict between management and the pilots led to flight
cancellation, loss of jobs, decreasing market
capitalization as well as international grudge and anger

 Use of proper conflict management strategies & resolution


techniques, effective communications and negotiations
techniques could have helped in avoiding the crisis that
strike Air Mauritius.

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