Contributed by Barbara K. Goza, Visiting Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Associate Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

From Journal of Management Education, 1993.

Procedure 1. Complete the following sentences with as many endings as possible.

1. When I first came to this class, I thought . . .

2. My greatest concern this term is . . .

3. In 3 years I will be . . .

4. The greatest challenge facing the world today is . . .

5. Organizational behavior specialists do . . .

6. Human resources are . . .

7. Organizational research is . . .

8. The most useful question I’ve been asked is . . .

9. The most important phenomenon in organizations is . . .

10. I learn the most when . . .

2. Your instructor will guide you in a class discussion about your responses. Pay careful attention to similarities and differences among various students’ answers.