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This Teamwork Game has been developed for teaching principles and rules of group work as a part of a group training programme. It is meant for teams both in industry and in the service sector. The aims of the Teamwork Game are to increase group members’ abilities and skills to work in groups and to increase the group’s functionality by creating common working principles. The Teamwork Game is a board and a card game, which simulates essential group phenomena and characteristics, and different aspects of group work. The team of three to eight employees answer question cards, discuss and solve problems, and then analyze group experiences in debriefing. The Teamwork Game has been applied in several organizations. The first experiences have been promising.
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Ruohomäki, V. (1995). Teamwork Game. In: Riis, J.O. (eds) Simulation Games and Learning in Production Management. APMS 1994. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2870-4_8
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