Teaching and Learning Organizational Behavior and Management Theories Through Narrative and Drama

This session will engage participants as writers and actors. Their assignment will be to contribute, as a member of a team, to a narrative in which the characters are living out organizational behavior and management theories (e.g. Theories X and Y, Barnard’s Zone of Indifference, The Johari Window, etc.). The brief story created by the team will be acted out by the team, complete with front-stage (the performance seen by the audience) and back-stage (the thoughts of actors, unseen by the audience) components. Keywords: Dramaturgy, Narrative, Drama, Storytelling

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