Writings and Essays - Directed Play - How to Play at Work: Plaques

Chapter 1: The Search

Directed play is play that contribtes to the goals of the organization.

When I was a child, I played to learn about life. Now that I am an adult, why should I discard the tool that I found so useful in my life?

Chapter 2: Motivation

People who work because they enjoy work are motivated from within. People who work because they want to obtain the good life are motivated from without.

The person who dies with the most toys worked the hardest. The person who dies having played the hardest had the most fun!

Find someone intrinsically motivated at work and find someone who is truly productive;.

Not only is play fun but it is a good motivator, and with directed play in the workplace, it results in increased productivity.

Chapter 3: Designer Playgrounds
A playground is a place where people play.

Step onto the playground and play begins. Step off the playground and play ends. If play doesn't end, you are still on the playground.


Play creates its own reality.


Play creates its own reality, its own magic kingdom. The question becomes what is reality. It is nothing more than the playground on which we are playing.

Chapter 4: Creating a Perfect Order

If life is a game, why don't we play it like it was a game.

Competition works only so long as the competitiors are embroiled in competition....

Games are a more structred form of play.

Directed play uses the workgame to create "perfect order" in the workplace so that we know we are all going to do and how we are going to do and how we are going to do it!

Chapter 6: Toward Directed Play

By suspending the realities of the outside world, a manager can ssist his people to be creative and imaginative.

Everyone plays.

It seems rather odd that we spend two thirds of \

Not only is play fun, but it is a good motivator, and with directed play in the workplace, that means increased productivity.

With directed play our employees are like paid volunteers

Additional Sayings:

A person totally absorbed in work may actually be describing a state of flow and not the misdirected effects of a workaholic.

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Dr. Robert B. Kauffman

rkauffman@frostburg.edu
Dr. Kauffman is a Professor of Recreation and Parks Management at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland 20534.

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