HR teams and managers would have a fair idea of how hard it can be to develop positive competition in the workplace today. You’re playing on a thin line and any false step can lead you into the atrocious perils of office politics.
Managers are often very indecisive when it comes to creating competition in the workplace. Competition can very easily turn into politics and you will have people backstabbing each other to get into the good books of the management.
While there are certain downsides to propagating competition inside the workplace, it is overall a beneficial progress that can lead to rewards and benefits in productivity if handled in the right manner.
The best way to improve positive competition inside your workplace is through the use of gamification techniques. Gamification allows you to incorporate game like attributes inside your workplace to rank and reward employees.
A rank report or rank chart can be created to give points to employees on the basis of their performance. The structure should be fair and employees that top the list or are in the top 5 or top 10 can hence be rewarded.
Having explained gamification briefly in our introduction, we now look at the reasons why you need gamification in the workplace:
Encourages and Builds Positive Competition
There are no secrets in the fact that gamification is primarily used to build competition between employees. With stringent managerial and supervision techniques you can help make sure that the competition is positive and that there isn’t any backstabbing or unfair means being used. Once you develop positive competition within your employees you will see a positive increase in their performance. Employees would try to outdo each other and will show increased engagement and focus at the workplace.
Motivation
Many motivational theorists from the days gone by have reported that positive competition in the workplace can allow employees to feel motivated and committed. Employees will feel motivated to come at the top and get the recognition and rewards that come with it. They will also try their best to meet goals and objectives, because they realize the financial and social benefits on the cards after these achievements.
Transparency in Management
Believe me, you will find it easier to manage a gamified workplace than one that isn’t gamified. It is transparent to track everything as it happens inside a gamified workplace. You can easily keep an eye on the employees performing better than others, and employees that aren’t doing as well. Rewards, bonuses and appraisals can also be a lot fairer and unbiased.
We at JS Benefits Group have worked with numerous clients to discuss the importance of gamification in the workplace. You can get in touch with JS Benefits Group immediately to discuss and devise a policy.
