The Gamification of Work - Uses of Games in Workplaces

Content: Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 Introduction: Journey to the Heart of the Gamification of Work
 I.1. Ludification and managerial practices in the \"fun work environment\"
 Gamification, ludification and ludicization
 I.2. A socioeconomic context favorable to the emergence of gamification
 A question of generation?
 I.3. Managerial uses of games in organizations
 1. Prelude: Fun, Play, Game, Ludus ... A Survey of Game Theories
 1.1. Animal play, human play
 1.2. Theories of human play
 1.2.1. Precursors
 1.2.2. Differentiation between game structure and ludic attitude. 1.3. Play as potential and intermediate space1.3.1. Winnicott and play as \"potential space\"
 1.3.2. Bateson and the question of \"frame\"
 1.3.3. Goffman\'s analysis of frame
 1.4. The concept of play today
 1.4.1. The current syntheses of a definition of play
 1.4.2. Brougère\'s characteristics of play
 1.4.3. The link with learning
 2. Games in Business
 2.1. Relations between games and work: an apparent incongruity
 2.1.1. A variety of ways to address the relations between games and work in the social and human sciences
 2.2. The game in business: returning to a typology
 2.2.1. Challenges. 2.2.2. Simulation games2.2.3. \"Real-life scenarios\" or \"role-playing games\" during training
 2.2.4. \"Reversal days\" or \"Try my job\"
 2.2.5. Business theater
 2.2.6. Serious games
 2.2.7. Traditional games (board games, cards, Kapla and Lego blocks, murder party, etc.) introduced in work contexts
 2.3. On the field of games in business: simulation and role-playing games
 2.3.1. The games analyzed
 2.4. & s it a game?
 3. Performativity of the Game: Games and the Structuring of Experience
 3.1. From the reality of work to the fictionality of games. 3.1.1. The ambiguity of games: from the \"not for real\" to the untruth3.1.2. From double assertion to mediation
 3.1.3. The liminality of the game
 3.1.4. \"Belief forged within immersion\"
 3.2. A role to play
 3.2.1. Role understood as status
 3.2.2. Deframing/reframing: role as technique
 3.3. Asymmetrical reversals: what happens to social relations in the game?
 3.3.1. Terms of reversal
 3.3.2. Limits of reversal
 3.3.3. Taking another\'s place up to what point?
 3.3.4. Changing place, changing view?
 3.3.5. Carnival and order. 3.4. The game as an operating structure and the performativity of the game3.4.1. An experience without consequences?
 3.4.2. Training for reflexivity, flexibility and exploration
 3.4.3. Performance linked to self-realization
 3.4.4. The power to speak granted by the fictional frame
 3.4.5. Promoting learning
 3.4.6. The naturalization of rules and norms
 Conclusion: From the Territory to the Map
 Bibliography
 Articles/Chapters from books
 Filmography
 Index
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