Harnessing our Heritage with a (not so simple) activity: Experiencing Bolman & Deal’s Power Simulation

In 2017, the Journal of Management Education’s Lasting Impact Award recognized Bolman and Deal (1979) “A simple—but powerful—power simulation” as one of two articles that continue to impact student learning. The simulation creates an environment designed to draw out role-based power and influence behaviors including managerial capacity to influence action, how managers may behave when given budget-based authority, and where communication breaks down among organizational levels. A train-the-trainer session, we’ll run the Power Simulation as if it were a class, allowing MOBTS participants to experience the activity and prepare to run it themselves for their own students.