Simulation in Personnel Administration

Authors

  • Richard W. Beatty

Abstract

The use of simulation in the University classroom appears particularly appropriate at this point in time as students seem to believe only what they have experienced rather than the tutelage and admonitions of their elders. In fact, if students do not have first hand experience they are unlikely to believe or accept a statement or a concept as real. Thus, since an introductory course in Personnel Administration (or industrial psychology) may be quite tedious and extremely technical in nature, especially considering the details of test validation, an experiential based pedagogy appears appropriate. Recognizing the failure of the lecture approach and the technical nature of the course, it was decided that a practice set of experiential exercises similar to those used in courses such as accounting would be developed for the introductory course in personnel administration. At present, no complete set of exercises in personnel administration is known to exist, although there are components of the personnel course which can be taught through existing exercises such as role playing simulations for personnel interviewing and labor relations. Beyond these, there seems to be very little use of experiential learning in personnel administration.

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Published

1974-03-13