CONFIDENCE EXTREMES DIMINISH QUALITY PERFORMANCE IN A TOTAL ENTERPRISE SIMULATION Developments In Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 19, 1992 136 CONFIDENCE EXTREMES DIMINISH QUALITY PERFORMANCE IN A TOTAL ENTERPRISE SIMULATION Alan L. Patz, University of Southern California John R. Milliman, University of Southern California ABSTRACT Career confidence extremes within competing groups make a difference in the Corporation total enterprise (TE) simulation performance results. Groups with a high proportion of individuals who are either highly confident or, conversely, lack confidence in current career choices do not perform as well as groups with moderate career confidence levels. This result confirms a more general finding obtained with both the Micromatic and Multinational Management Game simulations. That is, TE simulations are biased in that group personality composition affects performance results one way or another. All of these findings support a basic but beginning behavioral model of total enterprise simulation performance that includes personal and interpersonal needs, decision styles, and preferences for processing information and making decisions. Moreover, they add additional support for the notion that TE simulations may be designed intentionally to favor one or more specific personality biases. INTRODUCTION Recent studies have demonstrated a remarkable consistency in the relationship between group personality composition and performance in total enterprise (TE) simulations. Specifically, group information processing and decision making preferences, when translated into dominance orderings, are highly correlated with performance results in both the Micromatic (Scott & Strickland, 1985) and Multinational Management Came (Edge, Keys, & Remus, 1985) TE simulations. Group dominance characteristics were measured using the MBTI (Myers & McCaulley, 1985) test instrument, and their correlations with performance were r .707 and r -. 787 for Micromatic and the Multinational Management Came respectively (Patz, in press). In addition, matching groups on their information processing and decision making dominance orderings reduced the correlation to insignificance, r= - .055, leaving little question regarding the existence of the dominance phenomenon. But, there was one anomaly. A third TE simulation, Corporation (Smith & Colden, 1989), had none of the dominance relationships common to the other two.1 Therefore, beginning for a second time with Micromatic, performance relationships with other personality concepts were investigated, and interesting results appeared again (Patz, Milliman, & Driver, 1991). That is, personal needs within competing groups, represented by career decision concepts (Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, & Koschier, 1976), significantly enhanced the performance correlations with group information processing and decision making dominance (p < .05). And, career success concepts (Driver 1 1 The authors are indebted to Professors Arvind Bhambri and Nandini Rajagopalan for supplying the Corporation data from their classes. & Brousseau, 1983) in the same groups were significantly related to TE performance (p = .018) These results, of course, suggested a new avenue of approach to group personality correlates with the Corporation TE simulation. Would the same career decision and success concepts, representing personal needs, have significant correlations with Corporation performance results? Again, however, the answer was no. Corporation was different. Nevertheless, other test instruments were administered to the competing groups in all the aforementioned TE simulations. Among them were the CDAS, Career Decision Assessment Scale (Milliman, Driver, & Simon, 1989), and the CES, Career Exploration Survey (Stumpf, Colarelli, & Hartman, 1983). This time the results were different, and the purpose of this paper is to present them and comment on their implications. Background The earlier studies already noted suggested a basic but beginning behavioral model of TE simulation performance (Patz, in press), shown in Figure 1, that includes preferences, styles, interpersonal and personal needs. MBTI preference measures indicate an individual’s, and by extension, a group’s dominant orientation to the information processing and decision making routines of a TE simulation. Style measures are included because the MBTI instrument measures only information processing and decision making preferences. It does not indicate how much information and how many alternatives are considered before actually making decisions. These two issues are matters of decision style, learned habits of behavior (Driver, Brousseau, & Hunsaker, 1990), and can be measured with the appropriate instruments (Driver, 1983, 1987). In addition, members of the competing teams approach a TE simulation with differing interpersonal and personal needs. Among the more important of the inter-personal needs are those for inclusion by other group members, control over the group’s decision making process, and affection received from and expressed to other group members (Schutz, 1989). Foremost among the personal needs, especially for enduring an MBA program as the platform for attaining or maintaining gainful employment, are the various career decision making (Osipow, 1980) and success (Driver & Brousseau, 1983) concepts. The decision-making concepts are certainty and its counterpoint, indecision. Certainty is just what it suggests. Group members know what they will do or want to do after receiving an MBA. On the other hand, indecision occurs when group members are unable to choose specific occupations or career fields or are experiencing dilemmas about current choices. Success concepts will be explained in subsequent paragraphs. The key point for now is that the Developments In Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 19, 1992 137 interpersonal and personal needs determine how much force is behind the exercise of preferences and styles in group decision making sessions. For example, two key hypotheses in the most recent study (Patz, Milliman, & Driver, 1991) were that high degrees of career certainty within a group would correlate negatively with TE performance results, and group indecision scores would not be correlated with performance. Both hypotheses were confirmed, and the above concepts, summarized in Figure 1, suggest why. That is, a group of students who are rather sure of their career goals will view a TE simulation as another exercise necessary for graduation. This reduces the force or personal drive for TE simulation success. Indecision, however, is another matter. High degrees of group indecision may generate searches for resolution outside the classroom, negating TE simulation efforts; or, such uncertainty may encourage resolution efforts within the realm of business situations presented by TE simulations. In other words, group indecision may work either way, enhancing or diminishing TE simulation performance, and the net result is an insignificant correlation with performance. Related Certainty and Indecision Concepts Now, as noted above, certainty and indecision, labeled CERNTY and INDECN, did not correlate significantly with Corporation performance results. Respectively, the results were r = .28, p = .29 and r = .20, p = .46 (Patz, 1991). But, the CDAS, Career Decision Assessment Scale (Milliman, et al. , 1989) and the CES, Career Exploration Survey (Stumpf, et al. , 1983), the other two above mentioned ones were administered to the teams competing with the Corporation TE simulation. They were selected because of their related, yet different approaches to career decision making. For example, the CDAS measures the lack of confidence, LACCON, in current career choices. Conversely, the CES measures confidence, CONFID, in current career choices. A priori, it is reasonable to assume that certainty, CERNTY, and confidence CONFID, in career decisions are similar measures. Likewise, indecision, INDECN, and the lack of confidence, LACCON, could be similar cognitive structures. Therefore, in parallel with the two above-mentioned hypotheses, the first two hypotheses for this study are: Hl: Group confidence scores will be negatively correlated with Corporation TE simulation performance results. H2: Group lack of confidence scores will not be correlated with Corporation TE simulation performance results. Related Success Concepts Regarding success concepts, Driver et al. (1990) offer the following succinct statements regarding individual types: 1. The steady state view or career concept sees a career as a lifelong involvement in an occupation such as law with increasing expertise and respect as signs of success. 2. The linear career concept defines a career as a steadily upward movement on some clearly defined ladder. In organizational management career success is defined as reaching the top. 3. The spiral career concept sees a career as a series of different careers, each lasting about ten years and each building on the strengths of the past but allowing the development of new skills. Success is seen as the development of one’s own inner potential to its maximum. 4. The transitory career concept defines a career as a series of one to four years in varied fields with the key being novel challenge. Success is translated into the ability to meet greater challenges (pp. 141-142). These definitions lead to two further hypotheses, complementing those of the earlier study (Patz, Milliman, & Driver, 1991). That is, transitory types (TRANSY) value novel challenges the essence of TE simulation, and steady state types (STEADY) value stability, the antithesis of TE simulations- -especially in the opening rounds of play. Therefore it is expected that: H3: Group transitory scores will be positively correlated with Corporation TE simulation performance results. H4: Croup steady state scores will be negatively correlated with Corporation TE simulation performance results. Hypotheses for predominantly linear and spiral success concept groups are more difficult to formulate, and the only indications so far are empirical. That is, Micromatic performance results had a significant quadratic correlation with the percentage of team members in each competing group who held either primary linear or spiral concepts of career success. For purposes of brevity, however, it may be stated now that this result did not hold for the Corporation TE simulation. Developments In Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 19, 1992 138 In short, the only results noted here are for the seven group average variables noted above as CERNTY, INDECN, LACCON, CONFID, TRANSY, STEADY, and PERFOR. These labels, to repeat, are for career certainty, career indecision, lack of confidence in career choices, confidence in career choices, the transitory career success concept, the steady state career concept, and group performance results respectively. Group scores for each of these variables are obtained simply by determining the average of individual results in each group. METHOD The Corporation TE simulation was conducted in two sections of a capstone MBA policy course. Each section formed an independent industry, and a total of 75 students participated. One section had seven teams; the other one had nine; and all teams were self-selected. The Career Decision Assessment Scale and the Career Exploration Survey were only two of five administered at the beginning of the semester. A general explanation regarding the use of these instruments was provided, but the references were to improvements in curriculum design, not simulation research. However, a complete explanation of the entire effort was promised for, and delivered at, the end of the semester. After one class devoted to the clarification of simulation rules, evaluation procedures, and decision-making mechanics, a one-quarter practice decision was completed. Questions pertaining to the results of the practice decision were answered in a brief period of the next class session, and the evaluation procedure was restated. That is, the students were reminded that the game-to-date rankings at the end of the simulation were the figures of merit. The importance placed on ending game-to-date rather than current period results emphasized long- rather than short- term strategies. Moreover, attention was directed at three specific conditions. First, the actual ending period of the simulation would remain unknown. (The syllabus and the length of the semester actually allowed for a maximum of 12 quarters of play.) Second, all teams were expected to end their management tenure with a going concern, not a firmed stripped of long term potential in order to gain short-term ranking enhancements. Third, 20% of the semester grade for the course depended upon ending game-to-date rankings. One peculiarity of Corporation, however, is that the algorithm that generates game-to-date rankings is not discussed in the materials made available to the administrator and the students. Therefore, the participants must attempt to determine its nature along with all the other necessary analyses that underlie their decisions. Eight actual decisions were conducted then over an eight- week period with one decision per week. Decisions were due at specific times, they were processed by the simulation model, and the results were available to participating teams within two days. This allowed five days before the next set of decisions were required on a weekly basis. Play halted after the eighth decision, and each team gave a formal report to the class in the ninth week regarding their strategies, perceived reasons for successes and failures, and what they would do differently if they could begin again. Following these presentations an explanation of the test instruments was provided. Finally, relationships between TE simulation performance and test instrument results, known at the time, were discussed. RESULTS As noted in the earlier study (Patz, in press), a repeated measure analysis of variance indicated no performance differences between the seven Corporation teams in one section and the nine in the other, allowing the two sections to be combined for further analyses. Also, to repeat what was mentioned earlier, certainty, CERNTY, and indecision, INDECN, along with the linear, LINEAR, and spiral, SPIRAL, concepts of career success were eliminated as significant Corporation performance correlates. Therefore, attention was focused on the remaining assumptions and hypotheses. These findings are summarized in Tables 1 and 2 as well as Figure 2. First, the summary in Table 1 confirms the assumed relationships among career certainty, indecision, lack of confidence, and confidence. Certainty, CERNTY, and the lack of confidence are negative correlated, r (13) = - .666, p<. .01; CERNTY and confidence, CONFID, are similar measures, r (13) =.604, p< .05. Likewise, career indecision, INDECN, and lack of confidence, LACCON, are correlated r (13) =.583, p< .05; and, the relationship between INDECN and CONFID is in the expected direction, r(13) = .187, but is not significant. Second, as expected, the correlation between CERNTY and INDECN is significant, r (13) = - .595, p < .05.2 Third, and more important, the correlation between the lack of confidence, LACCON, and confidence, CONFID r (13) = .405 is not significant, removing multicollinearity problems in performance, PERFOR, multiple regression procedures. Before presenting other bivariate or multivariate results, however, it should be noted that the preceding statistics are for 15 rather than the 16 teams included in the study. The reason is that one team proved to be an outlier, and a typical example is shown in Figure 2, the performance regression on confidence with the outlier encircled. In all four cases of interest- - the PERFOR regressions on LACCON, CONFID, TRANSY, and STEADY- -a residual analysis 2 2 But, as noted earlier, the negative correlation is not large enough to suggest that CERNTY and INDECN are direct opposites. That is, certainty regarding career plans does not exclude indecision regarding rejected alternatives. Developments In Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 19, 1992 139 (Dillon & Goldstein, 1984) confirmed this team as a significant outlier, beyond the p = .05 level of significance. Now, regarding hypotheses Hl through the initial indications in Table 1 are that most may be rejected. For Hl, group confidence averages, CONFID, do have the hypothesized negative correlation with performance, but the simple correlation is not significant. For H2, as hypothesized, there is no significant relationship between the lack of confidence, LACCON, and performance, PERFOR. Likewise, for H3, the group transitory, TRANSY, scores do not have the hypothesized positive correlation with performance; and, the steady state scores, STEADY, while negatively correlated with performance, are not statistically significant. However, the size of the LACCON, CONFID, and STEADY correlations with PERFOR in Table 1 led to the obvious use of multiple regression examinations. Both forward and backward stepwise procedures were employed, and the significant results of both were the same, as summarized in Table 2. The upper part of Table 2 is the analysis for all 16 teams, and the lower portion pertains to the 15 teams included in Table 1. Standard beta coefficients are shown in order to indicate the relative influences of LACCON and CONFID, and the overall result is clear. Both standard beta coefficients are negative. Confidence extremes diminish quality performance in the Corporation simulation (R .6697), N - 15, F(2, 12) = 4.879, p = .0281. and the result holds even if the outlier is included in the analysis (R =.6276). N = 16, F(2, 13) = .4221, p = .0386). Thus, using these multivariate results and returning to the hypotheses, Hl is confirmed but H2 is not. The CONFID standard beta is negative and significant, t(12) = -2.848, p= .0147, as stated in Hl; however, so is the LACCON standard beta, t = -2.326, p=.0383, just the opposite of hypothesis H2. H3 is not confirmed; TRANSY has no relationship at all with PERFOR. Finally, H4 will be held in abeyance until a larger sample is obtained. Group STEADY scores do have the hypothesized negative relationship with PERFOR; but, consistent with the simple correlations in Table 1, the result is not significant. DISCUSSION These findings are important for several reasons. First, without any prior knowledge, they may have been anticipated. That is, every athletic coach attempts to fine- tune an individual’s or team’s level of confidence prior to a competition. Overconfidence leads to upsets by weaker opponents, and the lack of confidence inhibits them when facing stronger ones.3 Yet, there are some interesting variations. The Micromatic CERNTY correlation with PERFOR in the earlier study (Patz, et al., 1991) was significantly negative, just as the CONFID one is here. Furthermore, the correlation between CERNTY and CONFID in this study is significantly positive. Both measures appear to be determining factors of importance in TE simulations. On the other hand, the INDECN correlation with Micromatic PERFOR results was essentially zero, and the LACCON one here is significantly negative. Yet INDECN and LACCON have a significant positive correlation in this sample. There are some puzzles here until further analyses are completed. They will be performed and reported when complete. Similarly, the transitory, TRANSY, career success concept had a positive but insignificant correlation with PERFOR with Micromatic, as hypothesized. With Corporation, the correlation is zero. This is another puzzle, but steady state, STEADY, is not. Its correlation with PERFOR is negative in both studies, significantly so with Micromatic, and in the same direction with Corporation. All things considered, however, one point is clear. Personal needs within a group are a factor in determining TE simulation results, and the basic model exhibited in Figure 1 is a reasonable assumption. Said in another way, group effects exist in TE simulations. Furthermore, another point is even more important. TE simulations appear to contain personality biases. A search for the number of ways in which they may be biased, again, is suggested in Figure 1. Individual characteristics combined into group information processing and decision-making sessions, lead to different results depending upon the information processing and decision-making configuration. Corporation, Micromatic, and the Multicultural Management Game are different simulation configura- 3 Appreciation is Extended to C.A. Patz (personal communication, July 21, 1991) for this observation. Developments In Business Simulation & Experiential Exercises, Volume 19, 1992 140 tions with different demands upon participants. This creates a healthy, competitive market among them as well as all the other ones available. Moreover, there is no reason to believe that anyone began with the notion of building personality biases into TE simulations. But why not begin with this notion in mind? Determine the sources of TE personality biases and include them at will, depending upon learning objectives. The consistency in research results is now too evident to deny this possibility. 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Table of Contents Volume 19, 1992 The Pedagogical Utility of a Management Simulation Game in a Business Policy Course Modeling Economic Environments in Business Simulations: Some Comparisons and Recommendations Experiential Learning and TQM Principles: Teaching Behavioral Science in a Business School The Use of Poster Presentations as a Final Project in the Business Policy Course The Device Business: A Management Simulation for Strategy Formulation The Advantages of Experiential learning in the Auditing curriculum A Framework for the Identification of Moderated and Mediated Performance consequences of Pedagogical Alternatives Simulating Qualitative Research Relating to Values and Lifestyle Segmentation A New Market Demand Model for Business Simulators Interactive Optimization Using the Method of Relative Improvement Preferences: Methodology and Empirical Evaluation The Service Trainer Simulation Benefits of Internet Computer Networks for ABSEL Members How Should We Measure Experiential Learning? An Assessment of Simulation Usage in Management Accounting Courses The Influence of Myers-Briggs Type and Group Dynamics on Simulation Performance Effective Leadership Behavior in the Desert Storm Arena: An Application of the Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model Installing and Consolidating Work-Team Values: The Effects of a Multicultural Outdoors Experiential Program Key Determinants and Decision performance in a Business Simulations and Experiential Learning environment Multi-Cultural Experiential Learning: A Computer Simulation in Indonesia Attitudes Toward and Emotions Related to Women as Managers: A Replication and Beyond Scenario Approach to Simulating Consumer Expenditures: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Insights into Ethical Decision making Activities and Organizational Performance: A Management Simulation Analysis of College Students and Managers Evaluating a Business Simulation Program for Joint Venture Negotiation and Management Teaching Business Interviewing Strategies with an Experiential Approach Cooperative Learning Across the Business Curriculum Modeling Total Quality Elements into a Strategy-Oriented Simulation Teaching Business Decision making using a Simulator Extending the Educational Utility of a Simulated Competition within the Confines of an Established Undergraduate Marketing Curriculum Expert Systems Versus Traditional Methods for Teaching Accounting Issues Confidence Extremes Diminish Quality Performance in a Total Enterprise Simulation Can Ethics Be Taught? A Simulation Tests a Traditional Ethics Pedagogy Through The Looking Glass, Inc.: Organizational Climate Research as Experiential Pedagogy The use of Cluster Analysis for Business Game Performance Analysis Power and Ethnicity: An Experiential Learning Exercise (How to Sensitize Students to Diversity) Directed Development of Critical and Creative Thinking Skills for Case Analysis Implementing Total Quality Management in a Computerized Business Simulation Product Quality in Business Simulations Use of Simulation for Ethics Education in Management Satisfying the University's Customers through Total Quality Management Instruction: A Case Study Personality Characteristics and Group Performance in Total Enterprise Simulations Concepts of Interval Estimation and Quality Control Charts via Computer Simulated Sampling An Examination of the Effect of Team Cohesion, Player Attitude, and Performance Expectations on Simulation Performance Results The Effectiveness of Inventory Management and Production Scheduling Training in a Total Quality Management Environment Peer Group Indicators of the External Validity of Business Games: A five-year Longitudinal Study Political Strategies and Personal Actions Does Practice make Perfect? Observations on Simulation Trial The Use of A Non-Business Computer Simulation to Teach Marketing Management BankPro Commercial Bank Simulation The Production Game Pursuing Excellence: Work Strengths, Assets and relevant Values (An Exercise) Test of a Short Outward Bound Experience for College Students What is it that we want Student To Learn? Using Two TQM Philosophies when Playing Blackjack The Lagged Effects of Decision Variables on Financial Performance Measures Used in Two business Simulations The Development of an Experiential Exercise for Career Planning and Effective Job search Performance Measuring Quality in Management of Business Pedagogy Exploring Quality and Productivity Improvement: Using and Experiential Process Toward a Generalized Architecture for Intelligent Reactive Management Systems The Quality Game TQX: Using Expert Systems to Improve Training in Total Quality Management A Simulation of the Effect of the Medicaid Payment Lag on the Financial Position of Community Pharmacies The Use of a Board of Directors to Evaluate and Validate Decisions in a Competitive Graduate Management Simulation Course The Impact of Academic Dishonesty on Business Simulations and Experiential Learning Activities Picture Project: An Experience of Icebreaking and/or Decision-Making An Effective Role-playing Exercise for Teaching Requisite TQM Supervisory Attitudes/Behavior Computerized Management Simulations and Some Correlates of Students' Satisfaction The Timing and Stability of Reactions to Market Structure in a Single Player Simulation Environment A Graphics Application Extension for a Simulated Decision Support System Environment Aspects of a Group Project Utilizing Actual Business data and a Computerized Accounting System The Role of Universities' Extended Learning Department in Assisting Organizations Implement Total Quality Management A three-dimensional Learning Experience to Develop Total Quality Management Skills Estimating Quality Costs by Computer Simulation Applications and Examples of Quality Control Software Assessing Business Pedagogy A Demonstration of an Experiential Process for Exploring Quality and Productivity Improvement Processes An Action-Ethics Dilemma: A Demonstration Org Sim Jr.: A 2-3 Hour Version of the 2-Day Blanchard/Murrell Organization Simulation Building Buildings: An Experiential Exercise in Organizational Structure, Communication, Leadership and Group Dynamics Expert Systems for Organization Design: A Demonstration A Demonstration of Product Quality in a Business Simulation: Version 2 of CEO Two Revolutions, Total Quality Leadership, and the Baldy: The Story of Milliken Total Quality after the Award - The Xerox Story Building a Competitive Advantage through Customer Satisfaction and Reengineering Human Resource Planning: Managing the Only Renewable Resource for a Competitive Advantage Using Simulations to Teach International Issues: An analysis of the Multinational Management Game's Learning Environment Quality Function Deployment: A Tutorial Care and Nurturing of Teams Making a Good Thing Better: Adding TQM to Participative management Empowering Organizations to Redesign and Transform Themselves - Eastman Chemical Using Simulations in Field Management Development of an International Life Insurance Company Reinforcing the TQ Environment via Simulation Transforming a Business College into a Total Quality College