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Case
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Reference no. BAB085
Published by: Babson College
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 1 May 2004
Length: 6 pages
Data source: Field research

Abstract

Smokestack Village was a tourist attraction located near the continental divide in central Colorado. It offered visitors a large railroad museum and daily excursion rides on old railroad lines. Smokestack Village is a case about a small work group, which allows students to look at the characteristics of a social system. The evolution of the emergent system and its consequences for productivity, satisfaction, personal growth, learning, and development can easily be traced. The case also provides an opportunity to look at leadership in different ways, using concepts related to contingency, functions, style, influence, and power.

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Abstract

Smokestack Village was a tourist attraction located near the continental divide in central Colorado. It offered visitors a large railroad museum and daily excursion rides on old railroad lines. Smokestack Village is a case about a small work group, which allows students to look at the characteristics of a social system. The evolution of the emergent system and its consequences for productivity, satisfaction, personal growth, learning, and development can easily be traced. The case also provides an opportunity to look at leadership in different ways, using concepts related to contingency, functions, style, influence, and power.

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