A Serious Game for Evaluating the Competencies of Environmental Consultants

Abstract

Having a competent workforce is one of the key elements that enable organizations to improve their global performance Thus, it is important for an organization to manage the competencies of its staff in the best possible way. In this paper, we present a serious game named EnviRun’, that evaluates the acquired competencies of environmental consultants _ The environmental consultant advises and assists industries on projects related to the environment and sustainable development_ Indeed, Competency evaluation allows the organizations to define the potential of existing competencies and to specify competencies that need to be improved. To this end, the first step was competency identification. Indeed, we developed a competency framework that includes competencies required by an environmental consultant. Thereafter, the game elements were designed. To evaluate the environmental consultants’ competencies, an approach based on the interval-valued 2-tuple linguistic representation model has been proposed, this approach is more flexible when dealing with qualitative information.