Game Of Work

Author : Charles A. Coonradt
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423601579
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work written by Charles A. Coonradt and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original printing in 1984, The Game of Work helped thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of managers and employees experience increased job enjoyment while producing extraordinary results. The Game of Work examines the question of why people work harder at sports and recreation than they do on the job and uses these as metaphors for inspirational leadership strategies. Corporations worldwide have enjoyed the increased productivity, employee satisfaction and motivation, and bottom-line profits by implementing the concepts taught in The Game of Work. As qualified people become increasingly difficult to attract and retain, the implementation of the five principles in this book is the one key factor to improving results, retention, and recruitment. Five principles of The Game of Work: Frequent feedback; Better scorekeeping; Clearly defined goals; Consistent coaching; A higher degree of personal choice.

Author : W. Timothy Gallwey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0375758178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner Game of Work written by W. Timothy Gallwey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking guide to overcoming the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold! “If you feel like you’ve sunk to a new mental low on the job, this book has the potential to pump you up and help you to regain your ambition.”—Rocky Mountain News No matter how long you’ve been doing it or how little you think there is to learn about it, your job can become an opportunity to sharpen skills, increase pleasure, and heighten awareness. And if your work environment has been turned on its ear by technology, reorganization, and rapidly accelerating change, The Inner Game of Work offers a way to steer a confident course while navigating your way toward personal and professional goals. • Change a rote performance into a rewarding one • Work in the mobility mode rather than the conformity mode • Overcome fear of failure, change-resistance, boredom, and stagnation • Find a coach or become a coach (and see why that makes a difference) The Inner Game of Work challenges you to reexamine your fundamental motivations for starting work in the morning and your definitions of work throughout the day, changing the way you look at work forever.

Author : Eric Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965144759
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Your a Game to Work written by Eric Chester and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken S. McAllister
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817314180
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Work written by Ken S. McAllister and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video and computer games in their cultural contexts. As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis. Ken McAllister notes in his introduction to Game Work that, even though games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power. In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the ways in which ideology is coded into games. Computer games, he argues, have transformative effects on the consciousness of players, like poetry, fiction, journalism, and film, but the implications of these transformations are not always clear. Games can work to maintain the status quo or celebrate liberation or tolerate enslavement, and they can conjure feelings of hope or despair, assent or dissent, clarity or confusion. Overall, by making and managing meanings, computer games—and the work they involve and the industry they spring from—are also negotiating power. This book sets out a method for "recollecting" some of the diverse and copious influences on computer games and the industry they have spawned. Specifically written for use in computer game theory classes, advanced media studies, and communications courses, Game Work will also be welcome by computer gamers and designers. Ken S. McAllister is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a research collective that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games.

Author : Mauricio Goldstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470458836
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games At Work written by Mauricio Goldstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS LONG AS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED together, they have engaged in political games. Motivated by short-term gains promotions, funding for a project, budget increases, status with the boss people misuse their time and energy. Today, when many organizations are fighting for their lives and scarce resources there is increased stress and anxiety, and employees are engaging in games more intensely than ever before. Organizational experts Mauricio Goldstein and Philip Read argue that office games those manipulative behaviors that distract employees from achieving their mission are both conscious and unconscious. They can and should be effectively minimized. In Games at Work, the authors offer tools to diagnose the most common games that people play and outline a three-step process to effectively deal with them. Some of the games they explore include: GOTCHA: identifying and communicating others' mistakes in an effort to win points from higher-ups GOSSIP: engaging in the classic rumor mill to gain political advantage SANDBAGGING: purposely low-balling sales forecasts as a negotiating ploy GRAY ZONE: deliberately fostering ambiguity or lack of clarity about who should do what to avoid accountability Filled with real-world, entertaining examples of games in action, Games at Work is an invaluable resource for managers and all professionals who want to substitute straight talk for games in their organizations and boost productivity, commitment, innovation, and ultimately the bottom line.

Author : Charles A. Coonradt
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423630852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work (pb) written by Charles A. Coonradt and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original printing in 1984, The Game of Work helped thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of managers and employees experience increased job enjoyment while producing extraordinary results. The Game of Work examines the question of why people work harder at sports and recreation than they do on the job and uses these as metaphors for inspirational leadership strategies. Corporations worldwide have enjoyed the increased productivity, employee satisfaction and motivation, and bottom-line profits by implementing the concepts taught in The Game of Work. As qualified people become increasingly difficult to attract and retain, the implementation of the five principles in this book is the one key factor to improving results, retention, and recruitment.

Author : Emmanuelle Savignac
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786301237
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gamification of Work written by Emmanuelle Savignac and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles A. Coonradt
Publisher : Council Press
ISBN 13 : 9780936860176
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work written by Charles A. Coonradt and published by Council Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles A. Coonradt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877477716
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work written by Charles A. Coonradt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Coonradt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369323880
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game of Work written by Charles Coonradt and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original printing in 1984, The Game of Work helped thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of managers and employees experience increased job enjoyment while producing extraordinary results.