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How Gamification Helps Managers

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Transforming Learning and IT Management through Gamification

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By incorporating gamification into the daily environment of IT teams, the benefits are immense. Work-life improves as well as morale increases substantially. Employees feel much more comfortable at work and this leads to focused productive work. Engagement between team members and their managers also is enhanced which means that there is less chances that an employee will leave the organization. Research studies showed that Managers undermine creativity and productivity of their team members in many ways—most of the times they are not aware of this unless pointed out.

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  1. University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

    Edmond C. Prakash

  2. Dell India, Bangalore, India

    Madhusudan Rao

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Prakash, E.C., Rao, M. (2015). How Gamification Helps Managers. In: Transforming Learning and IT Management through Gamification. International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18699-3_7

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