Learning from a Realistic Simulation: A Case Study

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Abstract
Although management simulations can be excellent teaching vehicles, they can also appear to support a number of fantasies about organizational life that bear no relationship to reality. A simulation, Proteus, is described that attempts to deal with this issue by placing participants into a managerial situation with a high degree of realism. The effects of this realism are described and discussed in the light of a theoretical framework based on Kolb's model of learning and developed elsewhere. Paradoxically, the potential for improved learning from heightened realism can be obscured by the difficulties, and attendant anxieties, caused by that realism.

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