Motives of using business games in corporate management

• Main Author: O.A. Khilukha
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Zhytomyr State Technological University 2019-08-01
• Series: Вісник Житомирського державного технологічного університету: Серія: економіка, управління та адміністрування
• Subjects: business games; corporate management; interests; corporate teaching; motives
• Online Access: http://ven.ztu.edu.ua/article/view/180883/181061

According to the dynamic market environment requirements, qualified managers have to possess knowledge and skills, which cannot be formed using only traditional teaching technologies. The particular role among the corporative training methods play business games, which in addition to obtaining professional knowledge and development of abilities and qualities, build manager’s initiativeness, independence, willingness to act, responsibility, determination, ability to realize the set goals. They allow to develop creative talents, form communicative competence, overcome hesitation, create the effect of participants’ interaction taking part in a business game. The author defines a business game as an element of innovative training technologies, which build professional qualities of a specialist by immersion in a specific situation modelled by the game designer. The game activity is the most important means for building the professional qualities of a specialist, a manager, in particular, it is able to change the way of thinking and behavior, become the incentive of creative activity, and contested action. Thus, the playing training method is becoming popular in corporate teaching. The article researches the goals and motives of using business games in corporate management; and the requirements according to which business games have to be adapted, so that the games could meet the methods and conditions of the corporation activities and the interests of its concerned parties. Business games have to meet the methods and conditions of the corporation activities, be developed and carried out without loss of their content filling at maximum brief terms, be flexible and adaptive to different research objects, realistically generate and assess the options for decisions.