The Gamification of Work: The Use of Games in the Workplace (Focus) - Hardcover

Savignac, Emmanuelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786301237 ISBN 13: 9781786301239

Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, 2017

Synopsis

Despite the traditional opposition between play and work, games and their structure are increasingly used in workplaces. This phenomenon of using game elements or mechanisms in other contexts than games is named gamification . In workplaces, the gamification is supposed to abolish the separation between work and leisure or between constraint and pleasure. This book reviews a century of game theories in the social sciences and analyzes the uses of games in workplaces. We critically question the explicit functions (learning, experimentation ) which are supposed to be conveyed by games. Finally, we show that game, understood as a structure, could have efficient social functions in the workplace.

About this title

About the Author:

Emmanuelle Savignac is an anthropologist and senior lecturer at the University La Sorbonne, and at the CERLIS (CNRS, Paris 3, Paris 5).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786301237
• ISBN 13: 9781786301239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208