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Interest in games, and gamification is on the rise globally. The worldwide gaming industry for the year 2013 is estimated as 93 billion USD by Gartner Inc. (2013) and is expected to increase to 115 billion by 2015. Moreover technology giants like Facebook and Amazon recently acquired companies in the gaming industry worth billions of dollars. The interest towards and popularity of games also gave rise to the “gamification” concept, a term first used by Terrill (2008) in a slightly different form: ‘gameification’. Terrill (2008) defined the term as: ‘taking game mechanics and applying them to other web properties to increase engagement’. Deterding et.al. (2011) reviewed the origins of gamification and the related literature and came up with “the use of game design elements in non-game contexts” as the definition for this concept. Recently the gamification term was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary where it is defined as: “the process of adding game or game-like elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation” (TIME, 2014). From the perspective of these definitions, gamification brings game elements to (typically) uninteresting areas to influence attitude and behaviour of users by encouraging participation or increasing involvement. These definitions also indicate that gamification concept covers a large framework (many things can be considered as game elements), so a wide range of applications can be defined as gamification. For instance common loyalty programs that reward and encourage loyalty among customers (through points etc.) can be seen as similar applications of gamification. In typical applications of gamification we can see that points, badges, leader-boards, levels, rewards, progress and feedback systems are used to motivate participants. The gamification term became popular in 2010, despite the fact that gamified approaches have been used by many organizations such as Boy Scouts for over a century and military organizations for even longer periods of time. In the last five years, gamification has become a hot topic for businesses seeing many possibilities in increasing customer involvement and even changing consumer behaviour. Gamification is promoted as a state-of-the-art tool for marketing and increasing customer engagement (Zichermann & Cunningham, 2011) despite the lack of extensive scientific research. This lack of academic interest and research on motivational and behavioural studies in gamification and its applications create an area ripe for future studies. Companies in a wide variety of industries including but not limited to air travel, retail and financial services use different applications of gamification in their operations by incorporating badges, leader-boards, point systems, achievement systems etc. In the digitized world, implementing gamified approaches can be used as a low cost tool for increasing engagement of different systems. For example SAP used gamification to increase engagement of its professional community network members and realized a 400% increase in activity (Cetin, 2013). Some organizations have preferred using gamified applications targeting their customers and some saw more benefits in targeting employees. For instance, gamification in targeting the consumers have been used for acquiring new customers (Zichermann, 2013), educating existing customers (Bray, 2014), increasing participation in loyalty programs (Bourque, 2014) and collecting feedback (Cetin, 2013). For the employees, gamification may help in increasing participation, as Microsoft experienced in searching for translation errors in its office program throughout the world (Werbach & Hunter, 2012 p.17-20), or bug-fixing of software (Korobtsev, 2014). Also gamification can be used for improving the health of employees by changing their behaviour in participating in physical activities (Terry, 2012). According to a study by Workman (2013) nearly one third of the participating employers in the US had the intention of adopting a health oriented gamification approach within the following year. Please see Chou (2013) for a comprehensive list of successful real life examples of gamification.