Society & environment


The Better Business Dilemmas Game

The Better Business GameThe BT Better Business Dilemmas Game was developed to try to bring Corporate Social Responsibility to life. It does this by challenging players to respond to everyday ethical business dilemmas while balancing the needs of a variety of stakeholders.

There are two versions of the game.

The first is an online challenge for individuals.

A different version, for teams of players, useful for training, conferences, seminars, etc., is also available. Someone has to act as presenter of the game to the teams of players. The presenter will need to be fully familiar with how the game works and present the results back at the end of the game. You can download and print all the materials you need to play the team version from this page.

If you are new to the game, please follow Steps 1 to 3 below.

If you have played before, you may like to skip straight to Steps 2 and 3.

Step 1 - Instruction Booklet

Full instructions for presenters on how to play the game using all the printable materials you see on this page are contained in this booklet. Please print and read this first.

Step 2 - Question Cards

The questions are divided into 5 themes - Employees, Environment, Human Rights, Products & Marketing and Miscellaneous. Each theme contains 4 different questions. Each of the pdf files below contains questions for all 5 themes. You will note that these pdfs are named 'circle' and 'square' and you will need to print the questions you choose from each of these. The reason for this will become clear upon reading pages 4 and 5 of the Instruction Booklet.

PDF fileQuestion cards - circle
PDF fileQuestion cards - square

Step 3 - Results Presentation

You can use the Microsoft Powerpoint presentations below for the delivering the results of the discussions to the teams. Choose the ones that match the themes you selected in Step 2.

The presentation files below contain everything you need, including links to Microsoft 'Graph' function which allows you to input the results from your teams directly into the presentation. The PDF document 'Using the 'BT Better Business Game' PowerPoint presentations' explains this further.

Powerpoint fileEmployees
Powerpoint fileEnvironment
Powerpoint fileHuman rights
Powerpoint fileProducts & marketing
Powerpoint fileMiscellaneous

That's it! You now just need to follow the Instructions and prepare to present the game.

You may also like to know that a hard copy, boxed edition of this team game can be obtained from BT by contacting steve.j.kelly@bt.com. A small charge for this applies which is donated directly to BT's preferred charity, ChildLine.

To view the downloads on this page you may need some software. This can be obtained by following the links below.

Microsoft Office download Get Adobe Acrobat reader