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Operating under Stress: An Experiential Exercise to Illustrate the Sources and Consequences of Work Stress
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Rachel E. Frieder – Management Teaching Review, 2024
This experiential exercise is crafted around the classic board game Operation® (Hasbro 2008). Students are instructed that they are members of an emergency room team responsible for curing their patient of their ailments. However, unlike the board game, students in roles of doctors, nurses, and chief of surgery grapple with numerous sources of…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Work Environment, Job Satisfaction
Negotiating Quality and Productivity: An Experiential Exercise
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Albright, Robert R.; Finn, Dale – Management Teaching Review, 2021
This article presents an active experiential exercise that requires participants to negotiate over scarce resources while assigned separate managerial responsibilities. Students explore concepts associated with integrative and distributive bargaining while engaging in a realistic workplace role-play. Students form pairs and assume the role of…
Descriptors: Productivity, Undergraduate Students, Leadership Training, Active Learning
Testing an Intervention for Recognizing and Reporting Subtle Gender Bias in Promotion and Tenure Decisions
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Cundiff, Jessica L.; Danube, Cinnamon L.; Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Shields, Stephanie A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Women make up the majority of doctoral degree earners yet remain underrepresented in tenure-track positions within the academy. Gender disparities result in part from the accumulation of subtle, typically unintentional biases that pervade workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interactions that inadvertently favor men. However, the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Gender Bias, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Mechanisms of Learning Transfer in Adventure Education: Qualitative Results from the NOLS Transfer Survey
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Sibthorp, Jim; Furman, Nate; Paisley, Karen; Gookin, John; Schumann, Scott – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Transfer of learning from adventure programs remains of critical interest to adventure education professionals. Although some research has investigated what transfers, notably less has focused on mechanisms that might influence transfer. This paper explores the mechanisms of transfer reported by a stratified random sample of National Outdoor…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Adventure Education, Transfer of Training, Active Learning
The Role of Facilitators in Project Action Learning Implementation
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Cao, Rui; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chao, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai; Law, Mo Yin – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper addresses the importance of a more proactive role of organizational learning (OL) facilitators, learning motivation reinforcer, through a two-part longitudinal study in a case company. The first part of this study aims to investigate and analyze some unexpected challenges in the project action learning-driven (PAL) OL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Experiential Learning, Partnerships in Education
Emotional Episodes at Work: An Experiential Exercise in Feeling and Expressing Emotions
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Gibson, Donald E. – Journal of Management Education, 2006
This exercise explores how organizations affect individuals' feelings and expressions of emotion. Although recent attention by management theorists suggests that emotions are an important aspect of organizational life, people's actual experience of emotions at work often do not reflect this emphasis: Work-place emotions remain, in large part,…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Organizational Effectiveness, Management Development, Work Environment