Goal Setting and Performance Evaluation with Different Starting Positions: The Modeling Dilemma.

Pray, Thomas F.; Gold, Steven

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ERIC Number: EJ438003

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Publication Date: 1991

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Goal Setting and Performance Evaluation with Different Starting Positions: The Modeling Dilemma.

Pray, Thomas F.; Gold, Steven

Simulation & Gaming, v22 n4 p476-89 Dec 1991

Reviews 10 computerized business simulations used to teach business policy courses, discusses problems with measuring performance, and presents a statistically based approach to assessing performance that permits individual team goal setting as part of the computer model, and allows simulated firms to start with different financial and operating positions. (10 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Educational Games, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Management Games, Measurement Techniques, Models, Performance Factors, Problems, Teamwork

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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