The instructor can vary the size of the groupings to illustrate the problems or coordination among larger groups. Anderson, Donna M. and Michael J. Haupert. Applicants differ according to their productivity, which ranges from 0 to 10 units of production. The labor pool contains two types of workers, pink and blue, whose characteristics can be observed at zero cost by each employer. What cannot be observed at zero cost is the actual level of production of each worker.
Employers do have, however, summary statistical information concerning the worker pool.
Each employer is given a deck of cards, ten of which are pink and ten of which are blue. The productivity of each applicant is written on the back of the cards. The deck is shuffled and represents the order in which the applicants are interviewed. The students are divided into equal numbers of three market types representing different distributions of worker productivity. Three rounds are played.