Marketable Job Skills Learned in Online Gaming Activities

Hybrid (Virtual / Traditional) Workplace; Global Employee Relations; Human Resource Management

In the virtual world of the Open Source Software Community and in Online Games, the users manage to circumvent spatial dimensions to identify and share and overwhelming amount of complex, tacit knowledge. These skills, particularly the ability to adapt in a changing venue, are important in today's organizations. The purpose of this research is to identify marketable job skills that may be acquired through the online activities.