The assignment is designed to provide managers with the experience of creating a job description, creating questions for that position and then proceding through a portion of the selection process for that position. The management creed should be a single page document following the pattern of the Apostle's Creed, but written in first person. Grading focuses on the depth of understanding and application as well as fitting the three areas just stated. It is essential that the descriptive paragraph clearly state how employees, peers, and superiors can measure your behavior and judge how well you live up to your beliefs. This simulation requires you, the manager, to manage a project without doing any of the actual work.
Most managers work their way into management positions through technical assignments.
In this simulation, you will manage employees to complete a task. The quality of the task's end product, the timing and the employees' evaluations of the manager form the bulk of the manager's grade. Click here for full simulation instructions. This simulation is a major component of the MGMT 645 People Skills Course. The simulation represents a complex organization with many managers, employees, and projects in that you will find numerous goals and uncertain success criteria.