The impact of Dr Barry Sears’ diet on employee stress: a preliminary study

Work stress can lead to health and performance problems for employees who are unable to cope with it. The main objective of this study was to investigate whether Dr Sears’ diet affects employees’ stress. Data was collected from a sample of 100 employees who were employed by different companies in the broader area of Attica, once a week for a period of three weeks. Of those who participated in the study 56% were male. The results showed that Dr Sears’diet had a beneficial effect on participants’ stress levels, which decreased from the first week of implementation and continued to decline during the second and third week. Future research should focus on long-term effects of this diet on employee behavior related to motivation and performance, to deepen our understanding of the significant role of nutrition at work

Motivating the citizens to transact with the government through a Gamified experience

The current paper explores the implementation of gamification in the government as a way to win back trust from the citizens. The motivation of the citizens to interact with the public authorities through e-government, requires a suitable gamification framework. Octalysis framework is chosen among the available gamification frameworks due to its motivation orientated nature. Octalyis is used a tool for a pilot study to gamify the Greek taxation information system TAXIS and reveals that TAXIS requires entertaining web aspects for its long term use by the citizens.peer-reviewe