MGMT 1001
Assignment 2 : Report
Henry Dinh

Student Name : Henry Dinh
Student ID: 3372774
Course: MGMT 1001
Tutorial Time: Friday 1pm
Tutor’s Name: Noa
Date: 24 / 05 / 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Everest simulation is a five-player simulation requiring groups of students to work together to overcome challenges and obstacles in order to conquer the mountain and reach the summit. The designers, Harvard Business School, do their best in incorporating real life dangers such as unpredictable weather, fluctuating health conditions and oxygen scarcity into the virtual expedition. In doing so, teams must manage, plan organize and manage themselves so that they can perform effectively and achieve the ultimate goal of reaching the summit.
In the simulation, the roles of being a physician, an environmentalist, the team leader, a photographer and a marathon runner, are delegated to each team member. If a team had more than five members, such as our team, the remaining members would assume the role of an observer. Each role had different personal information and goals tailored to them and the simulation encouraged players not to share personal information to others, thus mirroring real-life situations.
In the past years, it has been shown that students generally learn from their mistakes in the first simulation and perform better in the second. However Team ‘_____ ’ deviated from this idea, starting with 50% and deteriorating to 38%. The major improvement in performance between the simulations can be explained by the intragroup changes between Everest 1 and Everest 2. This will be closely examined by comparing and contrasting both personal and team’s experiences, using results in the two Everest simulations, analysing them under two critical organisational concepts: Groups & Teams, and Leadership.

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