Collaboration, Compliance, and Cupcakes: A Classroom Exercise. (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boehler, Barbara-Ann; MacLean, Tammy; O'Neill, Regina
• Is Part Of: Management teaching review. Volume 8:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 170
• Page End: 179
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: cross-functional collaboration -- ethics and compliance functions -- compliance procedures -- experiential exercise; Management -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Executives -- Training of -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 658.007
• DOI: 10.1177/23792981211054505
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2379-2981

Abstract

This in-class, 75-minute exercise creates a context for students to observe some of the challenges to cross-functional collaboration and offers insight into processes to achieve more successful outcomes. By demonstrating how a failure by compliance and business operations to work cross-functionally negatively impacts outcomes in the form of misaligned and ineffective corporate compliance procedures, students learn firsthand the importance of cross-functional collaboration. Given the ubiquity and importance of corporate ethics and compliance programs, this exercise fills an important pedagogical gap in management education.