Example drama dissertation topic 4:

Drama in the workplace: Teambuilding through role play.

Within direct sales teams within the early 1990s there developed a trend of team-meetings involving role play as a mechanism by which to encourage efficiency and productivity in the workplace. This dissertation revisits this phenomenon twenty years later. In so doing it questions whether’ in the more casual office of today’ lessons could be learnt in team-building’ colleague respect and relaxation techniques’ through the medium of drama.In so doing’ the researcher will undertake six experimental role play programmes (focussing on team-building’ colleague respect and relaxation)at two different UK companies’ to gauge the effects of such exercises. Each programme will last no more than thirty minutes’ and all participants will be volunteers.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• George’ J. S.’ Schwager’ S. andCanavan’ F. (2007).A guide to drama-based training.Employment Relations Today’ 25(4)’ pp. 73-81.
• Gremler’ D. D.’ Hoffman’ K. D.’ Keaveney’ S. M. and Wright’ L. K. (2000). Experiential learning exercises in services marketing courses. Journal of Marketing Education’ 22(1)’ pp. 35-44.
• Lewis’ M. M. (2005). The drama of international business: Why cross-cultural training simulations work. Journal of European Industrial Training’ 29(7)’ pp. 593-598.