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Beyond "The Total Organization": A Graduate-Level Simulation

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Journal of Management Education, (2010)
DOI: 10.1177/1052562910386113

Abstract

This simulation is designed to help students understand the complexity of organizational life and learn how to navigate a work world of chaos, conflict, and uncertainty. This adaptation and update of an exercise by Cohen, Fink, Gadon, and Willits has been a successful addition to MBA and EMBA courses. The participants must self-organize, choose leadership, determine roles, and develop the structure for an entrepreneurial (and should they choose, high-tech) venture. With few instructions, they must struggle with the ambiguity of multiple simultaneous organizational challenges including leading and following, innovation, decision making, team building, and organizational understanding.

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