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LER 565, Week 6 live session: Strategic Moves for Competitive Advantage in HR. The course finale and the Azee tournament. Instructor: Ryan Lamare.
One: first, a few minutes for your FLEX course evaluations. Two: a quick recap of this week's content on strategic moves. Three: the main event, the Azee tournament, our finale. Four: wrapping up, and what is due this week.
Before we play, take a few minutes for your FLEX course evaluations. It is anonymous and genuinely shapes how this course evolves. Please complete it now; time is given before the tournament starts. The evaluation is at flex dot illinois dot edu, linked from this slide.
A strategic move is a commitment, threat, or promise that changes the game in your favor. It lives on credibility: it only works if others believe you will follow through. The strongest moves are observable and irreversible, so you take your own options away on purpose. First-mover advantage, reputation, and burning bridges are all strategic moves.
All games are played at azee dot mattle dot online; log in and grab your username. Enter your name and username in the Google Sheet, which is how we track results. The tournament runs as three rounds of one-on-one games, with every game in a round played at the same time: I pair you up and send you to breakout rooms, one person creates the game on a normal board at fast speed, five minutes. Everyone plays every round. Report the winner in the sheet each time. The four players with the best records go on to the semi-finals.
The path to champion. A diagram shows three columns of paired match boxes, one column per round, so that every pair plays at the same time and nobody sits out. A red arrow labelled top four leads from the third round into two semi-final matches, which feed a single final match and a trophy. Everyone plays every round, one game per pair. A link opens the live bracket board.
Three things, all due Sunday August 9: the Week 6 quiz, fifty points; Podcast Analysis Assignment number two, one hundred twenty-five points; and Azee Reflection number three, on information asymmetries or strategic moves, eighty-three point three points. Find them all in Canvas.
Six weeks of games: prisoner's dilemmas, sequential games, coordination, information asymmetries, and strategic moves. You played every one, and saw where each shows up in real HR. Put it together and you can read, and shape, the games at work. Thanks for playing.