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What is Knowledge Worker

Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
A term developed by Peter Drucker in 1959 to identify workers that process information to develop knowledge and to generate theories and concepts in the workplace.
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Curricula Frameworks for an E-Learning Catalog
Bettie C. Hall (HI Consulting, USA) and Nancy A. Inskeep (HI Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-883-3.ch033
Abstract
Viable organizations use learning concepts to obtain competitive advantage and to leverage the organization’s knowledge. To remain viable, a learning organization embraces electronic communication and the World Wide Web to address increasing competitive forces and changing consumer wants. To focus these efforts, we discuss the importance of developing a curricula framework that meets the organization’s business and learning objectives and present examples of an e-learning system’s online catalog’s features and functionality.
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Knowledge Transfer and Sharing in Globally Distributed Teams
Participants in an economy where information and its manipulation are the commodity and the main activity (Drucker, 1969). Some examples of knowledge workers include, but are not limited to, researchers, product developers, engineers, and resource planners.
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Motivational Factors of Telework
Researchers, planners, analysts and/or developers who acquire, manipulate, and analyze information.
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Enterprise Alignment and the Challenge for Organization Development
A member of the organization who uses knowledge to be a more productive worker.
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Management and Telework
Researchers, planners, analysts and/or developers who acquire, manipulate, and analyze information.
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Processes, Prospects, and Promises of Electronic Leadership
One who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace ( Drucker, 1988 ).
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Motivational Factors of Telework
Researchers, planners, analysts and/or developers who acquire, manipulate, and analyze information.
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Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Corporate Context
A term first used by Peter Drucker, signifying an employee who primarily works with knowledge and information.
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Knowledge Management: Fad or Enduring Organizational Concept?
Employees whose most important organizational asset is their knowledge and their ability to manipulate it.
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An Adaptive Workforce as the Foundation for E-Collaboration
One who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace.
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Knowledge-Based Urban Development
Someone with an occupation in a post-industrial economy that is the most portable work of all, in which knowledge is of the higher value than any mere product or commodity, and is the most highly paid of all workers because s/he knows stuff. Knowledge worker can also be seen as someone who is computer adept, scientist, symbolic analyst, financial wizard, writer, artist, and later-day Bohemian and someone who gets to decide what s/he does each morning.
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Entrepreneurship Education for an Entrepreneurial Society
Workers whose main capital and occupation is related to knowledge .They have to think for a living. Example Architect, Accountant, Engineer.
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A Knowledge Worker Desktop Model (KWDM) Applied to Decision Support System
A knowledge worker is a worker whose job depends on the processing and use of knowledge and information in work situations that require decision making, and demand his initiative and responsibilities
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