Question

nicholas is the production manager for a manufacturing firm. he has two supervisors who are continually in conflict due to their personality differences. nicholas should have held a meeting last week to discuss next year's budget but cancelled it because the two supervisors had a verbal confrontation on the shop floor the previous day. what conflict handling style is nicholas demonstrating

Answer 1

Avoidance

Explanation: Nicholas is avoiding the conflict altogether which mainly results in a 'you lose - I lose' situation whereas if Nicholas has chosen other conflict handling style such as Collaboration it may be more fruitful because then may be the two supervisors can come with an idea together or he can use any other style to dissolve the conflict because this solution is temporary.