What is Knowledge Workers

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Workers population whose base their professional activity on the knowledge. Learn more in: Relations between Knowledge Acquisition Forms and Sources of Power in Organization

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A person with a specilaised skillset e.g. software engineer, architect, financial analyst. Learn more in: Addressing the Learning Needs of Future IS Security Professionals through Social Media Technology

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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, analysing, organising, 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 . Learn more in: Knowledge Management Systems as a Framework for IT in Knowledge Management

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are employees that own their means of production (they ‘produce’ with their brain and ‘sell’ brain-hours to the organization) in contrast to manual workers. Learn more in: Information Overload in the New World of Work: Qualitative Study into the Reasons

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A person who works with data, information, and knowledge rather than physical components. Learn more in: Knowledge Management in Organizations

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Individuals who routinely identify, process, share, and apply new information and knowledge as a part of their daily work. Learn more in: Knowledge Workers, Librarians, and Safety: Opportunities for Partnership

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Knowledge workers are highly educated employees who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge to developing new products, services, processes and procedures. As knowledge workers by definition are the experts of their own jobs, much of the decision-making and job design has to be relocated where the expertise lies. Learn more in: The Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizational Measurement: Exploring the Future of Organizational Assessment

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A person with a specialized skillset e.g. software engineer, architect, financial analyst. Learn more in: Leveraging Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning for Future IS Security Professionals