Confidence Extremes Diminish Quality Performance In A Total Enterprise Simulation

Authors

  • Alan L. Patz
  • John R. Milliman

Abstract

Career confidence extremes within competing groups make a difference in the Corporation total enterprise (TE) simulation performance results. Groups with a high proportion of individuals who are either highly confident or, conversely, lack confidence in current career choices do not perform as well as groups with moderate career confidence levels. This result confirms a more general finding obtained with both the Micromatic and Multinational Management Game simulations. That is, TE simulations are biased in that group personality composition affects performance results one way or another. All of these findings support a basic but beginning behavioral model of total enterprise simulation performance that includes personal and interpersonal needs, decision styles, and preferences for processing information and making decisions. Moreover, they add additional support for the notion that TE simulations may be designed intentionally to favor one or more specific personality biases.

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Published

1992-03-09