A New Approach to Promoting Flow in the Workplace Today’s leaders face an insurmountable challenge of retaining high-quality employees. Not only are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) situations arising, the workforce is embarking on a generational shift with significant implications for the effectiveness of more traditional and transactional leadership styles. When observing the sustainable…
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The Harmony of Climate and Culture
An Audience Perspective on Leadership Flow Impact The complexities of leadership often go unnoticed. When attending the performance of a symphony orchestra, there is often a visual understanding that the positive climate and culture a conductor creates with their musicians produces the highest quality of music (Meals, 2020). On one such occasion, I had the…
EEG to better fit the player’s skill level – enabling a stable Flow state in a serious game
Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about plastic pollution in the oceans DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3582515.3609512 By: Thomas Bjørner, Associate Professor and Head of Media Innovation & Game Research, Aalborg University. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-7168 In: Bjørner, T. (2023). Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about the plastic pollution in…
#KOKPAR Meaningful Life, Flow-Happiness in Kazakh Fine Art
Conference Presentation delivered at the 2023 CEEMAN Annual Conference, held at Almaty Management University ALMAU, September 2023. Author: Zoltan Buzady, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Abstract: We present the core elements of the Flow phenomenon, which is a central concept of positive psychology and a possible answer to what makes modern life…
Leadership & Flow Reading Collection by Dr. Zoltan Buzady
Dear Colleagues, Course Participants & Friends, You may wish to follow my curated reading collections on FLIPBOARD: Lead, Learn, Leapfrog – Buzady’s Collection on Leadership Trends and Tips Essentials on Flow, Leadership Development, and Serious Games The Future of Work ПОТОК via #FLIGBY in Russian version
Experiential Learning Ph.D. Course – Participant Reflections
I am a lecturer, researcher, and consultant in education and entrepreneurship, especially SMEs. My research area is on the behavioral aspects of digital transformation in schools and SMEs. I am currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate at Corvinus University of Budapest in the Department of Business and Informatics. When choosing an elective course, I saw…
FLIGBY: the Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership Development
By: Kristina Risley, University of Westminster, London, UK [orcid: 0000-0002-4368-6175] and Zoltan Buzady Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary [orcid: 0000-0001-5553-7583] presented at GALA Games and Learning Alliance Conference, Tampere, Finland Risley, K., Buzady, Z. (2022). FLIGBY: The Serious Game Harnessing Flow Experience for Leadership Development. In: Kiili, K., Antti, K., de Rosa, F., Dindar,…
Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies among Tourism Students using FLIGBY
By: Ana Ferro (ISPGAYA), Zoltan Buzady (Corvinus University of Budapest) & Fernando Almeida (University of Porto & INESCTEC) In: Journal of Hospitality& Tourism Education – Scopus cite score: 3.2, (Q2)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10963758.2022.2109475 AbstractThis article seeks to present an initiative to integrate a serious game into an entrepreneurship course, attended by tourism students, which enables them to…
Exploring flow-promoting management and leadership skills via serious gaming
By: Zoltan Buzady, Agnes Wimmer, Anita Csesznak & Peter Szentesi at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary In: Interactive Learning Environments Scopus cite score: 7.2, (Q1)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2022.2098775 AbstractThe considerable proliferation of serious games (SG) in management education necessitates an academic foundation grounded in the concepts and practice of leadership, Flow, learning and development theory. Going beyond…
Intuitive and analytical decision-making skills analyzed through a flow developing serious game
By: Agnes Wimmer, Zoltan Buzady, Anita Csesznak & Peter Szentesi at Corvinus University of Budapest In: Journal of Decision Systems Scopus cite score: 2.5, (Q1)DOI: 10.1080/12460125.2022.2073863 AbstractSerious games are tools for measuring, evaluating, and developing leadership skills through the decisions taken by participants in leadership training. We analyze decision-making skills in relation to 29 leadership skills…






