Better Factories Through Role Playing 160
pacopico writes "A former Ford executive has taken his unique brand of factory training to the public. According to Businessweek, Hossein Nivi has set up a new company called Pendaran that forces people to endure a week-long, manic training simulation that's meant to produce safer, better workers. The participants — lots of people from the tech and military fields — get yelled at by actors while they try to assemble things like golf carts and airplanes in a simulation that mixes virtual tasks on computers with real world tasks. After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team. It sounds both awesome and bizarre."
Re:That does not sound awesome (Score:5, Informative)
I'm not sure why breaking people's spirit is considered "awesome".
If you RTFA, you'd see that they break people of their independent streak.
By forcing them into shitty conditions and allowing them to fail over and over, flaws are exposed and eventually self-recognized
The psychological pressure is there just to speed up the process.
There's nothing special about this course, other than it's being done to white/blue collar workers instead of raw military recruits at boot camp.