The Falris Organizational Scavenger Hunt

Abstract

The FALRIS Organizational Scavenger Hunt is an exercise designed to provide students with an experience in organizing resources in order to accomplish a task; in this case the procurement of various goods and pieces of information as part of a well-known “fun format”, the scavenger hunt. Each item and/or group of items has been selected in order to demonstrate various dimensions of organizational behavior; e.g., systems concepts, cooperative vs. competitive behavior, individual vs. group effort and so on. The exercise serves as a vehicle for (1) examining these various organizational issues and (2) promoting group cohesion. The design of the “hunt” and advice on conducting and processing the exercise are offered.