People & Leadership · Human Resource Management

First Hire: Recruitment, Motivation & Leadership

Three student founders of The Hub — a snack bar inside Greenfield International School — must hire their first paid employee, design induction and motivation, and pick a leadership style for a real product disagreement.

3 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

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About this simulation

Three student founders of The Hub — a snack bar inside Greenfield International School — must hire their first paid employee, design induction and motivation, and pick a leadership style for a real product disagreement.

Three rounds covering the whole of IB Business Management Section 2 (Units 2.1 to 2.5): recruitment process, induction and training, motivation theories (Taylor, Mayo, Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor), and leadership styles.

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Recruitment decisions.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Job description style
  • Recruitment scope
  • Interview question set
  • Choose the hire
  • Induction depth (first two weeks)
  • Motivation diagnosis lens
  • Primary intervention
  • Leadership style for the vegan-wrap decision

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Trajectory across rounds

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Human Resource Management.

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