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Massively Multiplayer Online Games As A Sandbox For Leadership: The Relationship Between In And Out Of Game Leadership Behaviors, Sean Henry Veloria Mendoza
Massively Multiplayer Online Games As A Sandbox For Leadership: The Relationship Between In And Out Of Game Leadership Behaviors, Sean Henry Veloria Mendoza
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Given society's increasingly technology centric play and workplace environment, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) can be an excellent sandbox to develop future leaders of teams, which are the lifeblood of any organization. MMOs like World of WarCraft provide rich immersive experiences that allow leaders and followers the ability to create highly complex ecosystems that can mimic some of the largest out of game organizations. In game they can potentially gain valuable insights, which can later be applied to the workplace. This study explores Leadership characteristics appearing in and out of game. A combination of identity theories and leadership characteristics provide …
Impacts Of Expatriates' International Experience On Self-Identity, Mandy M. Chan
Impacts Of Expatriates' International Experience On Self-Identity, Mandy M. Chan
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Expatriation is becoming an attractive career path for many people due to the global economic movement. People experience career transitions due to change of organization, locations, responsibilities, reporting structures, and work groups. Expatriates in particular experience more extreme changes because of challenges they encounter from language differences, geographical distance across countries, culture, habit, and life style. These changes influence people's perspective in seeing things, including their self-identity. The aim of this research was to explore the evolvement of expatriates' self-identity. A qualitative research design using reflexive narrative inquiry was employed. Seven current and former expatriates from Australia, Japan, Netherlands, United …