BaFá BaFá is a face-to-face learning simulation (game), invented by Dr. R. Garry Shirts in 1974,[1][2][3] who also invented StarPower, and is published by Simulation Training Systems, Inc. The simulation is intended to improve participants' cross-cultural competence by helping them understand the impact of culture on the behavior of people and organizations. Participants experience "culture shock" by traveling to and trying to interact with a culture in which the people have different values, different ways of behaving and different ways of solving problems.
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