In today rapidly evolving work landscape, the integration of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and identities is crucial for organizational success and societal progress. As businesses strive to create inclusive environments, they face multifaceted challenges in engaging and empowering their diverse workforce. From gender biases in artificial intelligence to the complexities of managing contingent, geographically dispersed, and linguistically diverse teams, organizations encounter myriad obstacles in fostering collaboration, innovation, and well-being among their employees.
The new book, Gamification for Engaging a Diverse Workforce, addresses these challenges head on by exploring the intersection of diversity, inclusion, and gamification strategies in the workplace. Drawing upon a rich tapestry of research and real-world cases, this book offers insights, methodologies, and practical solutions for leveraging gamification to enhance engagement, teamwork, and performance across diverse workforce demographics.
The chapters in this book delve into various dimensions of diversity, ranging from gender and sexual orientation to career stage, linguistic diversity, religious affiliation, and geographic dispersion. Each chapter critically examines the unique challenges faced by organizations in these domains and proposes innovative approaches to address them effectively.
From the exploration of biases embedded in AI programming to the promotion of cultural understanding through gamification initiatives, this book provides a comprehensive framework for navigating the complexities of today diverse workplace. Through thematic analysis, systematic literature reviews, and primary case studies, the chapters elucidate the significance of gamification in promoting inclusion, fostering collaboration, and driving organizational success.
Readers will discover how gamification can serve as a catalyst for engagement, motivation, and learning across diverse workforce contexts. Whether it is designing inclusive games for learning and development, addressing the needs of contingent workers, or bridging cultural and linguistic barriers, the book offers practical guidance for HR practitioners, managers, and decision-makers seeking to create supportive and culturally sensitive work environments.
Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction 1. Engaging a Diverse Workforce: Role of Gamification 2. Engaging Contingent Workforce Through Gamification 3. Fostering Diversity and Inclusion: Empowering LGBTQIA + Communities and Embracing Equality 4. Engaging Workforce at Different Career Stages in Contemporary Organizations 5. Gamification: Fostering Team Building and Engagement Amidst Cultural Diversity in Organizations 6. Disability and Socio-Economic Diversity 7. Engaging Employees Through Gamifying Language and Linguistic Diversity: Overcoming Challenges and Promoting Inclusion at Workplaces 8. Embracing Religious Diversity at Work: A Gamification Approach 9. The Gamified Workplace: Managing the Geographically Dispersed Workforce Part I 10. Engaging Workforce from Different Geographic Regions Using Gamification Part II 11. Emodiverse: Gamifying Affective Diversity for Human Flourishing 12. Genders, Artificial Intelligence, and Workplace: DEI in AI 13. Leveraging Marital Status Through Gamification: Enhancing Employee Behavior and Workplace Diversity Index
About the Author :
Manish Gupta, PhD, MBA, is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head (undergraduate programs) at the School of Management at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. He has taught at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. His teaching areas include human resource analytics, human resource management, organizational behavior, and competency mapping. Apart from teaching, he also has industry experience. He is an article editor for Sage Open and an editorial team member of the Journal of Global Information Management, Cogent Business and Management, International Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, and International Journal of Cyber Behavior, and Psychology and Learning. He has been a guest editor for several journals published by Emerald, Wiley, Sage, Elsevier, etc. He received the Top Peer Reviewer 2019 Sward by Publons, USA (Web of Science) and also an AIMS International Outstanding Young Management Researcher Award in 2019. He has also won the best issue of 2018 award by Advances in Developing Human Resources (ADHR), USA. His work has received media coverage in national and international magazines, newspapers, blogs, and news channels. He has research papers, textbooks, reference books, book chapters, and teaching cases to his credit. He has convened an international conference and has conducted multiple management development programs. His PhD thesis was on the area of work engagement.
