USE OF SERIOUS GAMES IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
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https://doi.org/10.12775/AUNC_ZARZ.2015.022Keywords
serious games, training, developmentAbstract
The aim of the study is to find out the opinions of HR professionals on the usefulness of decision games. Due to respondents little knowledge of this type of training tools, before the survey was conducted, the decision game was played. The respondents claimed that decision games can be used as a supplement to a training process. According to respondents, such games can be an effective way of training certain skills and shaping attitudes, mainly related to the competition and decision-making. Observing the process of learning the rules of the game and the gameplay the researcher has found stages through which the players proceed, as well as has identified some characteristic posture, for example: transferring individual experiences and beliefs to the game, treating learning rules of the game as a challenge that requires teamwork and tendency to strong emotional commitment.
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