Purpose: This paper aims to review the role of “meaningful gamification” in creating meaningful experience to engage Gen Y workers. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a critical, practitioner perspective to review the role of “meaningful gamification” in creating meaningful...

Purpose: Prospective job applicants tend to use signals that are presented on corporate websites to form perceptions about the organizations. Specifically, they decide whether they would “fit in.” The purpose of this paper is to examine the explicit and implicit signals presented by...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how and when holacracy works for organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper illustrates the idea by drawing insights from the case of Zappos and Gidley’s framework of future organizations. Findings: The paper provides a balanced view...

Purpose: This paper aims to review how millennials, since coming into the workforce in 2004, have faired in several countries worldwide. After a synopsis of how the group is characterized in each country surveyed, suggestions are provided to human resource (HR) directors on how to further...

Purpose: This paper aims to understand aspects of feedback given to the millennial generation, particularly in new organizations. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on a review of existing literature from journals and magazines. The perspectives discussed in this paper have been...

Purpose: There are always ways of giving answers without actually giving them. This is highly visible across different organizations these days. When the emphasis is on openness and knowledge sharing, there is an equivalent construct which takes up a totally different position known as...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the expectations of adult part-time participants enrolled in training programs. The purpose was to provide knowledge for the adequate design of those programs. Design/methodology/approach: The design was a combination of complementary research...

Purpose: This article aims to establish the need for professionals and industry to get together on a common platform to engage in discussions, identify innovations and set standards. The movement of employees from unorganized to organized segment is accelerating and subsequently the cost of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the process and challenges faced by Indian family-owned businesses (FoBs) during succession planning and examine the recent advancements in succession planning of successful Indian FoBs. Design/methodology/approach: The authors make use of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present strategies maximizing the millennial talent. The study focuses on finer aspects such as millennials interests, likes, risk tolerance level, and unhappiness at workplace. The paper also underlines that the generational differences in the workplace...