Management games are used in management training to give participants a chance to make decisions and undergo experiences not usually available to them in the real world. Participants are asked to fill a role in the organization which requires them to make decisions and exercise particular skills. The games allow for the telescoping of time, the avoidance of the financial risk associated with real‐life decisions and provide opportunities for participants to measure their own performance against those of their peers from other organizations. The “in‐basket” technique, which comprises a number of business papers upon which the administrator must base his decisions, is a refinement of the game. In the Institute of Administration at the University of New South Wales management games are used as teaching aids to supplement other techniques of management training.
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Management Games
S. DERWENT
S. DERWENT
Director of the Institute of Administration at the University of New South Wales. He has had a varied career as an army psychologist, vocational guidance officer and Public Service Board Inspector. Mr. Derwent holds a number of important advisory positions, including that of training consultant to the N.S.W. Department of Public Health. He is the author of two chapters in Spann's Public Administration in Australia and was largely responsible for the N.S.W. Public Service Board publication Handbook of Personnel Policy and Practice. A member of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Mr. Derwent is a Bachelor of Economics of the University of Sydney.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7395
Print ISSN: 0957-8234
© MCB UP Limited
1965
Journal of Educational Administration (1965) 3 (2): 114–123.
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DERWENT S (1965), "Management Games". Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 3 No. 2 pp. 114–123, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009593
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