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Habeeb Ur Rahiman¹, Rashmi Kodikal², Sucharitha Suresh³

¹College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Manama, Manama, Bahrain.

|March 4, 2024

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Gamification significantly boosts job engagement and productivity by enhancing perceived usefulness and employee motivation. Job engagement acts as a key mediator in gamified systems for organizational success.

Keywords:

Gamification Job Engagement adoption motivation productivity usefulness

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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction
Management Science

Background:

Gamification, a concept as old as learning, is recently termed to enhance employee engagement through autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
It aims to foster holistic collaboration towards shared organizational visions.
Gamified systems are designed to increase both consumer and employee engagement.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of gamification on organizational job engagement and productivity.
To determine the relationship between gamification adoption, usefulness, motivation, and employee engagement.
To identify the mediating role of job engagement in enhancing productivity within gamified environments.

Main Methods:

A primary investigation involving 400 respondents from public and private sectors in the Gulf region.
Data analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and SPSS.
Focus on the nexus between gamification variables, job engagement, and productivity.

Main Results:

Perceived adoption and usefulness of gamified systems significantly correlate with job engagement.
Employee recognition and perceived motivation positively influence productivity.
Job engagement was identified as a significant mediator for organizational productivity in gamified settings.

Conclusions:

Gamification's effectiveness hinges on system design, employee motivation, and organizational context.
Findings offer insights into service sector employees' awareness and reactions to gamified work environments.
Gamification can enhance work engagement and productivity, contingent upon strategic implementation.