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Serious games can provide a convenient and straightforward access to complex knowledge for all age groups. However, learning achievements depend largely on learners’ non-cognitive factor disposition. With the aim of combining the fields of serious games and non-cognitive factors, this research focuses on the use of a business simulation which conveys change management insights. Business simulations are a subset of serious games and are perceived as a non-traditional learning method.The objectives of this work are versatile: (1) developing a scale, which measures learners’ knowledge and skills increase gained from a business simulation, (2) investigating the effects of non-cognitive factors on learning in this business simulation environment and (3) exploring the moderating role of team preference in this type of learning setting. Using the newly developed scale, this work finds that learners' skills and knowledge states are more pronounced after playing the business simulation.
Digital technologies change employees' working environments, methods and behaviours profoundly and are challenging employees' very personal beliefs, attitudes and identities. Digital mindsets provide insight into an individual's beliefs, attitudes and assumptions related to digitalisation. Strongly influencing employee behaviour, they play a major role in an organisation’s digital transformation. Building on research on mindsets, cognition and digitalisation, Ricarda Rauch analyses digital mindsets both conceptionally and empirically. Within one qualitative and two quantitative studies, she explores the personal meaning of digitalisation and derives four central digital mindsets. Her research helps to better understand the extent to which digitalisation impacts employees, explains their subsequent behaviour, and proposes beneficial employee development measures. The thesis reveals relevant implications for organisational researchers, HR practicioners and management alike.
This book explores the why and the how of women’s participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus. The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters endeavor to make women’s own voices heard, to discover the untold stories of women as perpetrators and facilitators of military violence, and the authors do this through the use of personal interviews and the study of primary documents. The work widens the geographical perspective of feminist security studies to dis...
Die digitale Transformation besteht nicht nur aus technologischer Innovation. Erfolgreiche Digitalisierung verändert vielmehr den sozialen Raum von Unternehmen. Die Entwicklung digitaler Kompetenz im Beruf muss daher die gesamte Person in den Blick nehmen, mit ihrem Denken, ihrer Kommunikationsfähigkeit, ihrem Handeln und ihrem Umgang mit Emotionen. Ausgehend von diesem Grundverständnis stellen die Autoren das mehrdimensionale Kompetenzmodell von Ulrich Hemel vor und skizzieren die Schritte zur Ausbildung digitaler Kompetenz. Dabei betrachten sie die zentralen Entwicklungsfelder, auf denen sich die Zusammenarbeit von Menschen durch die Digitalisierung verändert: Kommunikation, Mobiles Arbeiten, Führung, Lernen und Mitarbeitergewinnung. Das Ziel dieser ganzheitlichen Kompetenzentfaltung im Beruf ist die reflektierte Gestaltung der eigenen Arbeit im Sinne digitaler Souveränität und Fairness.
Einsatzorganisationen stellen aufgrund ihrer strukturellen Merkmale eine besondere Organisationsform dar. Der Sammelband widmet sich dieser Thematik multiperspektivisch, indem er übergeordnete Charakteristika ziviler und militärischer Einsatzorganisationen durch wissenschaftlich fundierte Beiträge illustriert. Zudem werden anhand anschaulicher Praxisbeiträge Antworten auf vielfältige Fragestellungen gegeben, mit denen sich Einsatzorganisationen konfrontiert sehen.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Management Styles, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The history of leadership research and leadership theory goes far back into the past. Ever since people have lived together in groups, there have been leaders and those who are led. The many different leadership styles have also been discussed and criticized since the 1950s. The question arises which style is the most efficient or the "right" style for leading people. For a company it is of great importance with which behavior their managers can influence or motivate the employees to the best possible performanc...
A high level of employee commitment holds particular value for organizations owing to its impact on organizational effectiveness and employee well-being. This Handbook provides an up-to-date review of theory and research pertaining to employee commitment in the workplace, outlining its value for both employers and employees and identifying key factors in its development, maintenance or decline. Including chapters from leading theorists and researchers from around the world, this Handbook presents cumulated and cutting-edge research exploring what commitment is, the different forms it can take, and how it is distinct from related concepts such as employee engagement, work motivation, embeddedness, the psychological contract, and organizational identification.
This volume contains the papers presented at the second biennial Information Systems Foundations ('Constructing and Criticising') Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 16-17 July 2004. The focus of the workshop was, as for the first in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The particular emphasis was on the adequacy and completeness of theoretical underpinnings and the research methods employed. At the same time the practical nature of the applications and phenomena with which the discipline deals were kept firmly in view. The papers in this volume range from the unashamedly theoretical ('The Struggle Towards an Understanding of Theory in Information Systems') to the much more practically oriented ('A Procedural Model for Ontological Analyses'). The contents of this volume will be of interest and relevance to academics and advanced students as well as thoughtful and reflective practitioners in the Information Systems field.
*An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*