Student's Perceptions of Managerial Functions after Exposure to Either the Case Method or a Simulation

Abstract

This study represents an attempt to measure the effects of participating in a business simulation on the attitudes of the participants relative to a number of managerial functions. Comparisons were made between two groups of student subjects, those subjected to the simulation in two sections of the senior business policy course and those with the case method instead. Findings for these two groups were that the simulation group found organizing definitely more important than any other single activity. The other variables considered failed to show any significant difference between the groups.