BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Knowledge Worker
- an employee who deals in information, ideas, and expertise. Knowledge workers are products of the so-called information age, in which the emphasis is on creativity and innovation rather than on maintaining the status quo. According to Peter Drucker, in the new economy every employee is becoming a knowledge worker.
Wiktionary Definition for: Knowledge Worker
- someone who works with information or data
Additional Resources
- Basex Names The 'Knowledge Worker' Its Person-of-the-Year; Microsoft, Xerox and Factiva Join In Honoring The Knowledge Worker
- NEW YORK -- Basex, a leading research and consulting firm and the authority on the productivity of knowledge workers and how information technology impacts them, announced its Person-of-the-Year for 2004 - the 'Knowledge Worker.'
- Research articles 2004-12-22
- Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity And Organisational Knowledge
- Improving the productivity of knowledge workers is one of the most important challenges for companies that face the transition from the industrial economy to an economy based on information and knowledge. This paper briefly explores the failure of traditional knowledge management to address the problem of knowledge worker productivity and...
- White papers 2004-07-05
- The Impact Of Mobile And Wireless Technology On Knowledge Workers
- Organisations continue to be disappointed at the difference that ICT has made to knowledge worker productivity. This paper reports an exploratory study of the extent to which emerging mobile and wireless ICT can support the mobile nature of the knowledge worker's job, including the impact that these technologies can have...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Ten Guiding Principles For Knowledge Management In e-Government
- Knowledge management, popularly known by its acronym KM, as is known nowadays, is only few years old and is a distinct contribution of the private sector where the concept of knowledge as a "Competitive advantage of the firm" and "Knowledge capital" hold the sway. It is only that Knowledge Management...
- White papers 2007-01-11
- Why You Need a Personal Knowledge-Management Strategy
- The goal of knowledge work is to create the unique deliverable appropriate to a particular customer and context, not to reproduce the same deliverable one created the last time. Knowledge management is about making it easier to create that deliverable by taking better advantage of what has been done before....
- White papers 2005-05-24
- Towards Information Visualization in Cooperative, Evolutionary Knowledge Spaces
- Contemporary knowledge management activities in an enterprise suffer from the discrepancy between the global benefit for the organization and the personal benefit for the individual knowledge worker. To ameliorate this divergence an evolutionary approach was investigated which automatically integrates the structures of individual knowledge workspaces into comprehensive organizational knowledge structures....
- White papers 2003-07-02
- Rising Above the Crowd: How Top-Performing Knowledge Workers Distinguish Themselves
- Few organizations know how to maximize knowledge worker performance to achieve optimum business results, however. Most executives focus exclusively on attracting and retaining talented individuals; few bother to ask how they can best support and enhance the performance of the knowledge workers they already employ. To determine how organizations can...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- "It's Easier to Ask Someone I Know": Call Center Technicians' Adoption of Knowledge Management Tools
- This paper traces the early implementation phase of a set of knowledge management tools in four customer call support centers within a multinational corporation. Through a case study analysis, this paper addresses two fundamental issues. First, the paper investigates how the organization keeps a new type of knowledge worker -...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Knowledge Management Within Digital Libraries by Means of Personalization
- This paper presents research results obtained from the project Personal Adaptable Digital Library Environment PADDLE. The main focus of the DFG funded research project is to apply concepts of knowledge management to digital libraries by introducing personalization techniques. The idea is to enable the specific needs, experiences, skills and tasks...
- White papers 2002-09-24
- Knowledge Worker Interview Questionnaire
- It takes on average of seven hours to research, develop, and format a questionnaire to elicit specific information from a job candidate. By using this MyWorkTools.com product, which comes as an easily adaptable Microsoft Word document, you will save approximately 6 hours. This tool includes questions on the candidate's professional...
- Download resources 2005-08-02
- Character and Effective Leadership of the Knowledge Worker
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper was twofold. The first purpose was to explore the proposed relationship between effective leadership and the two character dimensions - leadership credibility and self-efficacy - within an organization comprised primarily of knowledge workers. Little has been done to measure the relationship...
- White papers 2005-05-03
- IBM unveils knowledge worker strategy
- At its January 2008 Lotusphere conference held in Orlando, Florida, IBM announced its strategy to un lock the knowledge of workers "from the bottom up", eschewing the "top-down" approach used by traditional KM systems.
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Guy Vs. Guy: Shutting Down Your PC at Night: Money Saved or Productivity Lost?
- Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this recurring feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. This week’s topic: turning PCs off at night. Can a business really save thousands of dollars annually, or does this "green" effort actually cost money? ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Knowledge Content and Worker Participation in Environmental Management at Mummy
- This paper looks at, within the context of lean production, how and in what ways employees participate in environmental improvements. The paper uses data from an automobile plant well known for its participative work structures, New United Motor Manufacturing NUMMI, to look more closely at the dynamics of worker participation...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Sample Apparel Worker Cover Letter
- An apparel worker cover letter can help land a job for a man or woman who wants to work in the textile industry. These employees cut fabric and other materials and sew it into clothing and related products. Be sure to state clearly your aptitude for the work and your...
- Tools & templates 2009-01-01
- Sample Horticultural Worker Cover Letter
- Use this template as a cover letter to apply for the post of horticultural worker. A horticultural worker cover letter is the key to the door opening for you in a field that promises creativity and leadership, planting, cultivating, and harvesting horticultural specialties, such as flowers and shrubs, and performing...
- Tools & templates 2009-01-01
- Sample Food Preparation Worker Cover Letter
- Use this template as a cover letter to apply for the post of food preparation worker. This food preparation worker cover letter focuses on the applicant's ability to prepare food before it is served. Washing, chopping, cutting, and setting up various food items are part of what is required for...
- Tools & templates 2009-01-01
- Putting It All Together Again
- From the executive summary: ‘Knowledge work is hard to measure. Although, not all knowledge workers are alike, there is no standard classification or segmentation scheme for them. There are many productivity tools for knowledge workers, but they do not connect well with each other. The organizational support for knowledge work...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- What Do You Know?
- The knowledge worker and the knowledge environment today require synergy and collaboration more than ever before. It is immeasurable, intangible and yet clearly invaluable. The collective knowledge that is the sum of what every employee in a company knows, and what other information that company has accumulated over the years,...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Information Overload Is Nothing New
- How many people store a letter opener in the top drawer of their desk these days? O.K., we haven't done a survey, but we're pretty confident that the number would be relatively low. It used to be that you spent a significant chunk of time each day sliding that letter...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
