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What is Knowledge Workers

Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
Workers population whose base their professional activity on the knowledge.
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Relations between Knowledge Acquisition Forms and Sources of Power in Organization
Yvan Leray (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-883-3.ch108
Abstract
At the hour when the economic activities leaned with technology (e.g., the Internet) give some signs of maturity, the field of the economy of knowledge does not appear any more to rise out of the possible, but more out of the probable. Vis-a-vis the appearance of new strategic trades for the companies, an evolution of the trades related to technology Internet is done day. Thus, the references of awaited competences, although in adaptation to the changes of the occupied trades, make it possible today to identify the broad outline of the knowledge related to the employment occupied by the “net-workers” and “knowledge workers”(Bouchez, 2004). When we are interested by the individuals and collectives behaviors in companies, we are surprised by the new practices of knowledge’s acquisition, at the point to note an impact on the concept of power and to consider another reading between knowledge and power.
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A person who works with data, information, and knowledge rather than physical components.
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Individuals who routinely identify, process, share, and apply new information and knowledge as a part of their daily work.
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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.
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They are the workers whose main capital is knowledge such as engineers, academics, architects, lawyers, and scientists whose job is to “think for a living.”
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