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Ally with AI: An Icebreaker to Unlock Career Aspirations for Online or Hybrid Organizational Behavior Cohorts
Jyro B. Triviño
Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Volume 18: 2025, pp. 285-296; ABSTRACT
Modern organizational behavior classrooms, which are increasing in size, diversity, and
complexity, are shifting to online and hybrid learning environments, challenging the use of
traditional icebreaker activities. This paper introduces a 15-minute icebreaker designed to address
these issues while integrating the principles of Kolb’s experiential learning theory and fostering
social capital through peer engagement in an online setting. By leveraging the availability of
generative AI, students prompt a template code to unlock their career aspirations and stimulate
social connections among their classmates. This provides an innovative teaching model for meeting
the foundational icebreaker goal while serving as a suitable tool for exploring technology, creativity,
and personal branding. It also serves as a prelude exercise to the individual-level analysis of the OB
framework. A detailed, step-by-step procedure is provided, along with a discussion of the activity’s
pedagogical advantages and its alignment with the evolving management outlook.
Keywords: icebreaker, generative AI, organizational behavior, experiential learning.
