Game Media Research
Back from Rome, have to say it is a really beautiful city, however I had not much time to look into it. For the conference, there were some interesting presentations and my presentation worked well, too. I already got an idea for a paper next year in Talinn. Below you will find my presentation I hold.
Newspaper Distribution in Oslo
Great, a third paper got accepted at the International Human Ressource Management Conference in Aston. The topic was International Talent Management – Tentative Implications from Cultural Background and Cultural Intelligence and here is the abstract:
Talent management reveals potential talents, trains them and keeps them at a company, however in a globalized world the cultural factor is disregarded. Talents will be generalized on grades and experience, but not on their cultural background. However we will shortly review talent man- agement and afterwards look into the cultural diversity and its beneficial influence on team per- formance and thereby probably beneficial for talent management. If we integrate the cultural background and the cultural intelligence into talent management, it should be possible to find even more fitting talents and keep them in the company with less incentives, as they found a fit- ting job to their cultural environment, additional to their eagerness of performing well. The cul- tural background directly influences the recruiting process and the cultural intelligence directly the human resource development. This paper shows that cultural background and cultural intelli- gence seem to have implications of talent management, especially on recruiting and training.
European Football Finals in 2008: Spain with the better Culture for Football?
And another paper got accepted, this time for the European Academy of Management in Rome. I handed in a paper with the topic “Different Jobs need Different Cultures“. It is based on the survey I made for my diploma paper and here is the abstract:
Team performance is affected by cultural values; in this paper we propose that cultural differences have different influences in distinct job-fields. The implications are based upon a survey of software development teams in the game software industry. We focus on the game software in- dustry as it represents an under-researched field, and the game software development teams are truly international work teams and are predestinated for cross-cultural research. Based upon cross-cultural information systems and teamwork literature, we develop a conceptual model with the constructs of cultural values, cultural intelligence, mindfulness, teamwork quality, and team performance and tested it on a sample of 179 game developers. The results show that cultural values have an influence on team performance and more important these values differ in the job- fields.
Counter-Strike Game at the EPS Finals XIV in Cologne
So got my first conference approval for the 2010 year and I will be going to the World Media Economics and Management Conference in Bogotá. This is the most important Media Management Conference so I am thrilled to present there a paper about video games and especially World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike.
Here the abstract of my paper: Current Leadership faces severe problems, since the workforce is changing and it becomes more complicated to motivate employees. Therefore this paper looks into how video games are handling the topic of leadership. Gaming is part of the modern media world and as research indicates it gives insights into leadership of future organizations. In this paper leadership theory will be compared with two cases of games: On the one hand World of Warcraft and on the other hand Counter-Strike. Both games give different insights of the intuitive game leadership training of these players. After comparing these cases with the leadership theory, we see that they are mostly fitting to the leadership theory, thus their approach to these principles is different. Therefore the cases allow us to learn diverse tactics of leadership, as the cases focus on the fun and the motivation. The players enjoy the learning of new skills and align with other peoples and different abilities. In summary this paper shows, that gamer already learning several skills for leading companies and teams, however they also learn to participate in teams on their own. Companies can learn that motivation and keep raising the bar are essential for organizations in order to attract the new gamer generation. We also learn about the importance of the fun in work, which becomes more essential for the gamers.
Blizzard Picture from Diablo but still it is a Video-Game Picture
Meine Diplomarbeit an dem Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement handelte von dem Thema “The effects of cultural differences on software development team performance”. Dieses Thema beinhaltete eine Umfrage mit 179 Teilnehmern, hier ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus der nationalen Verteilung: Continue reading ‘The effects of cultural differences’
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