University Daily Kansan, April 25. 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Projects presented in competition Students study real-life management
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
A semester of long hours and hard work culminated yesterday in computer presentations by students in a course at the Business 629 Management class.
Students in a section of the management class were assigned to write a computer program containing scenarios of real-life management tasks. The scenario is forced the user to make decisions and face the consequences.
The class was divided into three groups, which competed to create the best program. The groups, each having three leaders, gave 15-minute presentations of their projects to the judges at the Center auditorium. The decision of the judges will determine the basis for the grade of the project.
The judges of the projects were Howard Baumgartel, chairman of the department of psychology; Gordon Fitch, associate dean of business; Dan Spencer, associate professor of business; Robert Bryan, representative of Richard D. Irwin Publishing; and Robert Summm, owner of Schumn Food Co., 719 Massachusetts St.
"WE HAVE BEEN working on this
since the very beginning of the semester," said Chris Herrick, Winfield senior. "We spent probably between 100 and 150 hours out of class."
Herrick is the president and spokesman for his 13-member group, which called themselves the Beta Company.
"Four of the six judges expressed interest in buying the management software game." Herrick said.
The goal of the Beta Company group was to create a software game to help introduce users to real-life behavior, Herrick said.
To achieve that goal, the group defined several aspects of management, such as directing, budgeting, coordinating, controlling, staffing, reporting, planning and organizing. The definitions and helpful hints about each were included in the program.
TWO OR THREE more problems are included in each scenario. Next, the program provides a summary of the aspect. After each scenario, three business trivia questions are provided. Herrick said. The questions give
A scenario follows that introduces a problem and four possible solutions. Each solution includes an explanation of the reason one solution is better than another, Herrick said.
the users a break and keep their interest.
"We had to put everything we've learned in the School of Business into one project," Herrick said.
Herrick said the experience from the project would help him when interviewing for jobs. He said the experience taught him to work in a group, motivate other members, organize, manage time, determine
objectives and delegate responsibility.
The project is 50 percent of the class grade, Herrick said. The leaders of each group assign a grade to the other members of the group. That grade will be considered with the grade given for the project as a whole, which is based on the decision of the judges.
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