Southampton MBA brings Participatory Theatre to the Classroom

MBA students take part in staged performance appraisal workshop

As part of the Performance Management class in the Managing People module, MBA students watched a staged performance appraisal between a manager and employee and were then given the opportunity to act as the manager in the ensuing scenarios.

MBA Director Dr Nuno Da Camara explains: "Participatory theatre is an excellent technique which illustrates real behaviours in the classroom and allows students to practice these behaviours themselves. Traditional chalk and talk teaching has a purpose in terms of imparting information but behavioural focused learning requires highly active techniques to support learning transfer to the workplace."

The session was delivered by:

Dr Nuno Da Camara - MBA Director

Esam Bakhsh BEng MBA - Business Training Consultant