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Worker whose main capital is knowledge
A knowledge worker is a worker whose main capital is their knowledge and expertise. Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics, whose job is to "think for a living". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Knowledge workerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and QualityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: People And the Competitive Advantage of PlaceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest ChallengeCited 923 times
- Go sideways: Knowledge economyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Creative industriesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Someone who works with information or data.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge
Measuring knowledge worker productivity
Worker Knowledge of Pension Provisions
Knowledge management, organizational commitment and knowledge-worker performance
The impact of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity
Knowledge-worker productivity: the biggest challenge
Personal knowledge management: supporting individual knowledge worker performance
Planning Information Technology–Knowledge Worker Systems
🆕 Influential since 2022
Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality
Strategic people management in contemporary highly dynamic VUCA contexts: A knowledge worker perspective
Knowledge worker mobility and knowledge management in MNEs: A bibliometric analysis and research agenda
Major Factors Influencing Safety Knowledge–Sharing Behaviors of Construction Field Workers: Worker-to-Worker Level Safety Communication
Impact of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity: individual knowledge management engagement as a mediator
📚 Books worth reading
People And the Competitive Advantage of PlaceShari Garmise · 2005- 📕Managing the knowledge intensive firmNicolaj Ejler · 2011
- 📕Thinking for a LivingKenneth A. Megill · 2004
- 📕Global Capital and Peripheral LabourRavi Raman · 2010
- 📕Creative Working in the Knowledge EconomySai Loo · 2016
- 📕Personal Knowledge ManagementG. E. Gorman, David J. Pauleen · 2011
The wealth of knowledgeThomas A. Stewart · 2001
Managing knowledge workersA. D. Amar · 2001
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