Common features of

Crisis
 The situation materialises
unexpectedly.
 Decisions are required urgently.
 Time is short.
 Urgent demands for information
are received.
There is sense of loss of control.
 Pressures build over time.
Routine business become
increasingly difficult.
Reputation suffers.
Financial Crisis Technological
Crisis

Natural Crisis Workplace

Violence
Technological crisis arises as a result of failure
in technology.
 Problems in the overall systems lead to
technological crisis.
 Breakdown of machine, corrupted software
and so on give rise to technological crisis.
Example of Unsuccessful
Crisis Management
Union Carbide India Ltd, gas leak tragedy in
Bhopal, on December 2, 1984.
•It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at
the
•Union Carbide India Ltd, pesticide plant in Bhopal,
•Madhya Pradesh.
• A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other
chemicals from
•the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of
•thousands of people.
•Estimates vary on the death toll. The official
immediate death toll was 2,259 and the
government of Madhya Pradesh.
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