Career and Organizational Counseling

Career and Organizational Counseling

Impact of role playing and simulation of simulation exercises in task-based and dimension-based assessment centers in employee's performance

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors
narges sadat mortazavi 1
hamidreza oreyzi 1
zohre moosavi 1
abbas abbaspour 2
1 university of isfahan
2 Allameh Tabataba'i University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between high, moderate and low simulations, and the fidelity and not fidelity of simulation exercises in two types of dimension- based assessment center and task-based assessment center in employee's empowerment in the workplace.The current study was the quasi experimental research and participants in this study were 24 managers of industrial Company that who were selected through purposeful sample and according to Murphy & Myors's table. The instruments used in the study included the simulations exercises(Role play, Leaderless group discussion and Case study) and Empowerment Questionnaire (Speritzer,1995). Data was analyzed using the one way Anova.The results of this study showed that there is a difference between high, moderate and low simulation of simulation exercises in dimension-based assessment center and there is a difference between fidelity and not fidelity of simulation exercises in task- based assessment center(p
Keywords
Empowerment-Simulations exercises-Assessment center(AC)
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