Teaching OB in a Classroom as Organization Format: Your Questions Answered

Classroom as organization (CAO) is an experiential and transformational approach to teaching that can be applied to teach any management topic. In CAO the classroom becomes an organization and learning occurs by doing, where students are delegated responsibilities traditionally performed by the professor. The teacher is more of a coach, not addressing the class or lecturing, but rather helping the students to fulfill their roles, become part of a functioning organization, and learn organizational behavior by becoming an organization together.This presentation will give an overview of one example of CAO known as the XB (experiential based) classroom.