Title
Organizational behavior and human resources teaching moments from The Apprentice
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
The NBC reality show The Apprentice dramatically portrays small, diverse teams working in competitive environments to complete business tasks. We have used select scenes from the series to illustrate concepts in an undergraduate teambuilding/problem solving course. At the MBA level, we have tasked student groups with analyzing an entire season from eight organizational behavior perspectives. This paper describes how the show has been utilized in each of these contexts. The Appendices include a list of the episodes and incidents from Season 1 that are useful for discussing various management concepts, as well as the MBA-level project description and scoring rubric.
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference
Recommended Citation
Goltz, S.,
&
Woods, T.
(2010).
Organizational behavior and human resources teaching moments from The Apprentice.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference.
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