Business Games: A Motivational Strategy In Teaching And Learning The Organizational Theory

The organizational theory has been developed and being enriched by the growing diversity of epistemological views, including the Institutional Approach. However, the absorptive capacity of knowledge has undergone a considerable lag in relation to the demands of the labor market. This study aims to analyze the application of the business games methodology as a complementary strategy in the teaching and learning, given the framework of the Institutional Approach, character interpretation. The research was based on a survey of two classes of graduate courses in administration, where one of them was applied in a business game and the other does not. Using qualitative and quantitative analysis, we concluded that the business games can be a very useful methodology in the reality simulation in assessing the performance and contribute in the teaching of various streams of organization theory.