Editor’s Choice: Employee Retention through Gamification – Part 1
Editor’s Choice: Employee Retention through Gamification – Part 1
Editor’s Choice: Employee Retention through Gamification – Part 1
September 8, 2022
By Cris Cunnane
Summary
While labor woes are spurring many organizations to accelerate their efforts in exploring automation and technology, one rather interesting, and somewhat outside the norm area of technology that shows potential, and is being used by some organizations such as Amazon to enhance employee engagement and retention is gamification.
In a survey by talent lms, 81 percent of respondents said that gamification provided a sense of belonging and purpose in the workplace, while 89 percent of the respondents said gamification boosted competition and eagerness.
Gamification makes warehouse tasks interesting and employees more engaged.
There are a number of ways to leverage gamification techniques to make typically repetitive tasks more interesting.
Let's look at some of those ways through the lens of the three pillars of gamification.
That's where the three main pillars of gamification come in: Personal Pride, Socialization and Competition.
A laboratory experiment in which two gamification elements, goal setting and feedback, were implemented in a wearable warehouse management system interface to examine their effect on user engagement and performance in an item picking task, concluded gamification can successfully increase employee engagement, at least in the short-term.
Reference
Cunnane, C. (2022, September 08). Editor's choice: Employee retention through gamification – part 1. Retrieved September 15, 2022, from https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2022/09/08/employee-retention-through-gamification/