Analysis of a Business Simulation Exercise: Organizational Survival and Success

Abstract

Although simulations focusing on such group decisions as those concerned with ‘The NASA Moon Project,” “Desert Survival,” “Anartica,” and others, have been developed and used in seminars and classrooms for years, an organizational simulation that reviews factors that affect an individual’s success and survival in an organization has not, to our knowledge, been done, and, as a result, these factors are subject to considerable debate. This simulation and study was done in an attempt to provide empirical data on the subject.