TRAINING EXECUTIVES IN ACTION

Abstract

Role playing has become an established technique for training industrial supervisors. Many practitioners, however, have been hesitant in applying role playing methods to executive training. A survey conducted by FACTORY Management and Maintenance showed that of 107 companies using role playing, 72% used it for line supervisors, The survey showed that only 16% of the companies used it for training higher plant management. It fo11ows that even a smaller percentage utilize the technique for training executive personnel. Many industrial training people feel that top management personnel will not respond to the technique. This attitude is not justified by experience and, in fact, the FACTORY survey indicated that role playing had not truly been tested as an executive training too