How to avoid the dark side of gamification: Ten business scenarios and their unintended consequences

Gamification in Education and Business

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 553-568

  Callan, Rachel C ^a   Bauer, Kristina N ^b   Landers, Richard N ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Employees; Gamification; Management; Motivation; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926508818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10208-5_28     Document Type: Chapter

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