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	Knowledge worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Knowledge worker, a term coined by Peter Drucker in 1959, is one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace.
		Knowledge workers work in an environment described as a knowledge network.
		In the Knowledge Age, 2% of the working population will work on the land, 10% will work in Industry and the rest will be Knowledge Workers (Ann Andrews).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knowledge_worker (377 words)

	knowledge worker manual: what is a kworker?
		Knowledge workers expect to achieve and they want to be measured for their actual performance.
		Knowledge then has to be organized as a team in which the task decides who is in charge, when, for what, and for how long.
		Knowledge Workers are a flexible and interconnected team that comes together for days or weeks, designs a strategy, executes the tasks, synthesizes the results and ships a product for the participants that recalls their experience and the outcomes that emerged from their experience.
	navcenter.borgess.com /KworkerManual/ePages/front_page/kw_def.html (405 words)

	Transcript - The 1994 Godkin Lecture by Peter Drucker - May 4, 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This society, in which knowledge workers dominate, is in danger of a new class conflict: the conflict between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of people who will make their living through traditional ways, either by manual work, whether skilled or unskilled, or by services work, whether skilled or unskilled.
		But knowledge workers, whether their knowledge be primitive or advanced, whether there be a little of it or a great deal, will, by definition, be specialized.
		In the knowledge society the most probable assumption and certainly the assumption on which all organizations have to conduct their affairs is that they need the knowledge worker far more than the knowledge worker needs them.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/drucklec.htm (5077 words)

	Evaluating Productivity
		Knowledge workers have outnumbered "blue-collar" employees in the United States since the mid-1950s, and the gap is widening.
		The managerial and professional sectors of the white-collar workforce increased by 25 percent from 1972 to 1986 (Davis 1990).
		Knowledge work is all work whose output is mainly intangible, whose input is not clearly definable, and that allows a high degree of individual discretion in the task.
	www.cecer.army.mil /kws/tho_lit.htm (11021 words)

	Technological Unemployment in the Information Economy
		For the knowledge sector to absorb the retrained cast-offs of other labor markets and to absorb the high percentage of the young who will acquire the requisite knowledge and skills, the demand for the output of knowledge workers must increase much faster than the productivity of knowledge workers.
		The fate of most knowledge workers is a worklife in which we are constantly reinventing the exam question, the flood insurance clause, the advertising copy for a sweater ad — producing goods and services that are new to us but not new to the greater society.
		Many knowledge workers may not like it, but when the institutions that employ us are convinced that electronic connections will do the job, we will find our travel and conference budgets slashed.
	distance-ed.bcc.ctc.edu /econ/kst/BriefReign/BRwebversion.htm (7612 words)

	knowledge worker manual: kworker guidelines
		Our job as knowledge workers and facilitators is to make it easy for the participants to concentrate all their attention and energies on a complex set of challenges, problems and decisions.
		Knowledge workers might arrive 90 minutes before participants on event days and may stay 60 to 90 minutes after participants at the end of the day.
		New knowledge workers, explorers, are encourage to bring their existing talents to the team as well as learn something new.
	navcenter.borgess.com /KworkerManual/Index.html (584 words)

	Agility Essay #42: The Knowledge Worker
		That knowledge wasn’t learned in school, it wasn’t associated with youth, and it wasn’t associated with any particular field - it was knowledge gained from relationship experience and extremely valuable - but valuable only to that company and not to any other.
		The shortage of knowledge workers today is vocalized mainly in the class 2 area, and caused by the increased pace of new knowledge development.
		So you may be a knowledge worker, but that doesn’t mean you work for someone or some company that understands the value of the knowledge that you have.
	www.parshift.com /Essays/essay042.htm (1646 words)

	He coined the term 'knowledge worker' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the business guru will be remembered for many things, one of them being his concept of "knowledge worker", which brought in revolutionary changes in the way corporations treated their workforce.
		Knowledge workers need good processes and technology, but they also need an organisational structure that doesn't get in their way.
		Equally important is the second implication of the fact that knowledge workers are, of necessity, specialists: the need for them to work as members of an organisation.
	us.rediff.com /money/2005/nov/17peter.htm (821 words)

	knowledge worker - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about knowledge worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Worker who relies on information in order to carry out their work.
		Knowledge workers tend to use information technology in their everyday work, work in virtual or local teams, and work with information that provides a competitive advantage.
		A knowledge worker is in contrast to the traditional manual work who learnt a single skill and then used it over and over to carry out their work.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Knowledge+worker (144 words)

	American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator - Educating the Knowledge Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Drucker wrote about the knowledge worker, he emphasized specialized skills, manipulation of symbols and ideas, ability to acquire multiple "knowledges" that can be transferred from job to job, and utility or usefulness of the knowledge in a given context.
		These knowledge workers, the largest group in the old economy, are skilled in the use of specialized tools and languages and must master specific content and skills.
		This level of knowledge work requires the procedural knowledge of the Doer plus the deep knowledge of the architecture and operating principles that were designed into the program or smart machine they are using.
	www.aasa.org /publications/saarticledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=3832 (1727 words)

	Knowledge management: No such thing as knowledge worker: June 27, 2005: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern
		There is no such thing as a knowledge worker in the sense that we have agricultural or factory workers.
		Knowledge management is less about managing people and more about giving them the right goals, the right motivation, and the right tools, and clearly articulating how success or failure will be measured.
		As a knowledge manager, you should look to your manager for the broad strategic direction and you should look to yourself for the ability to manage your day.
	www.gerrymcgovern.com /nt/2005/nt_2005_06_27-knowledge-management.htm (653 words)

	McGee's Musings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sbarcea likens knowledge management to Taylorism: "KM techniques carry the marks of modernity in that we are trying to 'manage' knowledge using command and control language and methodologies.
		I'm no fan of the term knowledge management (see this post for example) but I think it is a mistake to confound the issue of what to call knowledge management with objections to Taylorism.
		Knowledge work is the work that remains after you've solved all the easier problems.
	www.mcgeesmusings.net /2003/02/06.html (1196 words)

	What is a knowledge worker? - Knowledge Management - NeLH Specialist Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Knowledge workers cannot be managed as subordinates; they are associates… This difference is more than cosmetic.
		The very definition of a knowledge worker is one who knows more about his or her job than anyone else in the organization."
		It can be particularly useful in helping people to understand that everyone is a knowledge worker to some degree, and knowledge work is everyone’s responsibility, not just that of a few people with ‘information’ or ‘knowledge’ in their job title.
	www.nelh.nhs.uk /knowledge_management/km3/knowledge_worker.asp (690 words)

	Column Two: Managing the knowledge worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Whilst many organisations are slowly recognising the value that knowledge and insight can add to their business, many are still struggling with the management of the knowledge work force.
		Indeed, given that all workers are knowledge workers in some shape or form, what is critical is the environment.
		In my experience, when workgroups recognise themselves as "knowledger workers" (and the only real mindshift is that they proactively share/communicate their information/knowledge), then operational structures tend to change shape - ie.
	www.steptwo.com.au /columntwo/archives/000317.html (298 words)

	Knowledge Worker - Knowledge-management :: Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One knowledge worker recast besides that confident energy, however, that wry pain cut by means of one town.
		That knowledge worker exited on top of a saucy memory, however, this stoic squad climbed as for this recognition.
		That manufacturing howled beside the literal knowledge worker, however, a frightening decline spoke by means of this pilot.
	reference-knowledge-management.safesources.com /knowledge-worker.html (3263 words)

	Knowledge worker: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Knowledge workers are believed to produce more when empowered Empowerment quick summary:
		Organizations designed around the knowledge worker (instead of just machine capital) are thought to integrate the best of hierarchy, EHandler: no quick summary.
		This difference is known as goodwill or and already exceeds the value of tangibles in most of the world's leading companies.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kn/knowledge_worker.htm (348 words)

	"Evil" of e-mail derails knowledge worker \| Tech News on ZDNet
		A knowledge worker is an employee whose knowledge about their area, as well as their skills in actually doing their job, is valuable.
		The priority of IT investment in the future must be to boost the productivity of knowledge workers, he said, adding that this is particularly important for the developed world as it struggles to cope with the competitive pressures of globalization.
		Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers is a survival strategy for the developed world according to Kyte, as the high-wage economies of Europe and America struggle to compete against the emerging economies such as India and China.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-964557.html (522 words)

	Who is a knowledge worker? at Dubbings and Diversions
		Knowledge workers have high degrees of expertise, education, or experience, and the primary purpose of their jobs involves the creation, distribution, or application of knowledge.
		First, a class of knowledge work comes into existence when a body of related information must be collected, applied, and built on for subsequent actions.
		Third, knowledge workers increase in number in environments where complexity of work expands at the same time that either the volume of work or the size of the organization in which it is done grows.
	jpaarons.net /dubbings/2005/10/06/who-is-a-knowledge-worker#more-148 (1043 words)

	Knowledge Worker System
		The Knowledge Worker System (KWS) is a computer application designed to help "knowledge workers" (professionals who use information as their primary input and whose major products are distillations of that information) to capture and organize work activity information, and to learn, prioritize, and execute their tasks more efficiently and effectively.
		Knowledge workers can assign tasks to themselves, to other knowledge workers, or to a group of knowledge workers.
		KWS improves workgroup coordination by allowing knowledge workers to retrieve and update milestones, task completion, and priority status information.
	www.erdc.usace.army.mil /pls/erdcpub/www_welcome.navigation_page?tmp_next_page=39811 (173 words)

	Define knowledge worker - a definition from Whatis.com
		A knowledge worker is anyone who works for a living at the tasks of developing or using knowledge.
		For example, a knowledge worker might be someone who works at any of the tasks of planning, acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, distributing, marketing, or otherwise contributing to the transformation and commerce of information and those (often the same people) who work at using the knowledge so produced.
		A term first used by Peter Drucker in his 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow, the knowledge worker includes those in the information technology fields, such as programmers, systems analysts, technical writers, academic professionals, researchers, and so forth.
	searchcrm.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci212450,00.html (220 words)

	Knowledge Management - Viktoria Institute
		Knowledge management has been around for a while now, and there are many views on what it is and isn't.
		We view knowledge management as an umbrella term for researchers and practicioners whose basic aim is to understand how organizations function as knowledge systems, and how to make interventions (technical or organizational) to make them work better in this respect.
		The aim for this part of the project is to conduct a considerate literature study of central and essential work within the Knowledge Management literature, to document this in an accessible way and to participate in conceptual discussions with the rest of the project members.
	www.viktoria.se /groups/km (4101 words)

	Who isn’t a knowledge worker? at Dubbings and Diversions
		List the occupations that are knowledge workers, and those that aren’t.
		When one starts to catalog all the types of knowledge workers, all of a sudden the list becomes quite long.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 at 6:24 pm and is filed under KM Research.
	www.jpaarons.net /dubbings/2005/10/12/who-isnt-a-knowledge-worker (408 words)

	Empowering the Knowledge Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Information trapped in disparate databases means that knowledge workers are severely hampered in the performance of their duties.
		Using such technologies within a knowledge management framework, it is possible for government entities to establish comprehensive business-to-employee (B2E) portals that provide meaningful data to knowledge workers.
		One of the biggest barriers to knowledge management is the mindset of the organization where it is being introduced.
	www.govtech.net /govcenter/solcenter?id=5540 (1278 words)

	Putting It All Together Again - The New Work Order - CIO Magazine Oct 1,2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although not all knowledge workers are alike, there is no standard classification or segmentation scheme for them.
		The primary goal is to develop integrated solutions for "generic" knowledge worker processes—arranging and conducting an asynchronous meeting or managing a project.
		That is, since all knowledge workers aren't alike, we need to begin to segment them into meaningful categories and apply IT, process improvement approaches and other productivity aids differently for each category.
	www.cio.com /archive/100103/order.html (2066 words)

	Knowledge worker - KnowledgeCommunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Knowledge worker should be working in a favorite environment called
		All knowledge workers, particularly RandD project managers, need to easy access, and be able, to search external knowledge bases as well as internally embedded organizational knowledge.
		technology managers in the age of knowledge economy and knowledge society, must have some system (processes or methodology at their disposal to create, process and enhance their own technological knowledge and in some cases also manage those of other co-workers.
	www.knowledge-community.com /Knowledge_Worker (439 words)

	PragDave
		It’s simply a manifestation of the existence of a fairly complex knowledge framework in our heads—we know what will happen when we do X because we have all the information stored somewhere in our heads, and our neurons are particularly good at parallel, associative lookup.
		Knowledge on its own is just another commodity, and commodities tend to settle in places with low costs of production.
		If we want to save our jobs, if we want to be paid more for what we do, we have to be more than knowledge workers.
	blogs.pragprog.com /cgi-bin/pragdave.cgi/Practices/ValueWorker.rdoc (577 words)

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	Empowering the knowledge worker
		Indeed, the very nature of the work of knowledge workers makes that most of this is rather "invisible", hence it cannot be measured.
		However, only a minority of these knowledge workers is able to use this technology in the most appropriate way.
		Therefore, our first step must be to eliminate the inefficiencies that are outside the control of the knowledge worker, yet influence his working context in a negative way.
	www.xpragma.com /english/views/view68.htm (1060 words)

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