Center Stage: Incorporating Role Play in Class Assignments Enriches Active Learning and Critical Thinking

Abstract

In this research paper, the author sought to determine if role play could be used as an effective teaching tool to illustrate decision-making in a business environment by simulating the role of a company’s human resource manager examining both legal and ethical issues. Moreover, this paper highlights the value of an assignment using role playing, but also how attaching a “price” for student surveys as part of the assignment, elicits additional feedback and thus more meaningful results.