Motivating Learning through Teams and Technology: The HRManagement Simulation Project

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Experience learning in community by participating in a demo of the HRManagement Simulation (Smith, Golden, & Deighan, 2009), a web-based simulation where student teams make decisions related to the human resource management (HRM) function. Through participation and discussion, we outline the important learning that occurs from team decision making and inter-team competition. By replicating real-time effects of HRM related decisions, the simulation context increases students’ motivation to learn and challenges students’ ability to think critically, and act strategically and creatively. We share student feedback on learning and discuss supplemental activities and assignments for using simulations as a team-based project.

Author(s):

Loren Dyck    
University of La Verne
United States

Kathi Lovelace    
Menlo College
United States