Presentation - Air Mauritius Crisis
Presentation - Air Mauritius Crisis
Presentation - Air Mauritius Crisis
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.
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
CONCLUSION
Conflict between management and the pilots led to flight
cancellation, loss of jobs, decreasing market
capitalization as well as international grudge and anger