Simulations and Gaming across Disciplines and Cultures
Subtitle: ISAGA at a Watershed
Contributors: David Crookall (Editor); Kiyoshi Arai (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: June 19, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780803971028
Subjects: Advertising industry; Cybernetics & systems theory; Political structure & processes; Simulation methods; Intercultural communication; Mathematics; Sociology; Research; Social Science / Research; Game Theory; Congresses
First sentence: To help the participants become aware of the importance of the unwritten psychological contract that exists between an employer and employee and of the way in which that contract is changing, to encourage participants to examine their own interpretations of the psychological contract, to expose the conflicting values and obligations that underline major corporate decisions, and to enable participants to experience one or more counterproductive psychological phenomena (adjustive reactions) that commonly occur among managers making stressful decisions in small groups.