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The knowledge worker of the future
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications, 2009In today's competitive business environment, there are ever in-creasing pressures upon knowledge workers to solve problems in a near real-time manner. It is the responsibility of the knowledge worker to interpret, analyze and act upon information.
Cary Bran +3 more
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Knowledge Services for Knowledge Workers
2010Knowledge services have been proposed in this paper as a main component and measure in the knowledge society to promote the professional development of knowledge workers and improve their productivity. The basic design principles of knowledge services are discussed to integrate advantages of modern learning systems.
Dehua Ju, Beijun Shen
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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 2018 The purpose of knowledge management is innovation. However, this study proposes that the existence of knowledge management in the knowledge-worker's work environment can nurture the overall satisfaction of knowledge worker.
Muhammad Shujahat +2 more
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Are Care-Workers Knowledge Workers?
2007In all developed societies, the phenomenon of the ageing of society, in conjunction with the feminization of the labour force, calls for formal arrangements of elderly care. Japan is no exception in this regard, with care services for the elderly being the fastest growing sector in the economy.
Makiko Nishikawa, Kazuko Tanaka
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Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2013
Patient care handoffs are critical to ensuring continuity of care and patient safety. Current definitions of handoffs focus on information, but preventing errors and improving quality require knowledge. The objective of this study was to determine whether knowledge and wisdom were exchanged during medical and surgical patient care handoffs and to ...
Susan A, Matney +2 more
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Patient care handoffs are critical to ensuring continuity of care and patient safety. Current definitions of handoffs focus on information, but preventing errors and improving quality require knowledge. The objective of this study was to determine whether knowledge and wisdom were exchanged during medical and surgical patient care handoffs and to ...
Susan A, Matney +2 more
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The Nurse as the Knowledge Worker
AORN Journal, 1987The purpose of health care institutions is to provide quality patient care. Who renders quality patient care for these institutions? Nurses do. Without nurses, health care institutions would be unable to provide essential services; therefore, administrators need to attract and retain nurses who are knowledge workers and manage their environments ...
S F, Ward, J L, Kozakowski
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Gig Workers versus Knowledge Workers
2023Abstract To manage workers in the gig economy, we must understand the various types of gig workers and how they perform. This chapter focuses on the many types of gig workers and how professional gig workers overlap with knowledge workers in the knowledge economy.
Sedigheh Moghavvemi +2 more
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Improving knowledge worker efficiency
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 2015This paper synthesises cognitive engineering and productivity improvement literature to develop a new task based framework for problem solving in complex work environments. We represent decision making as a process flow where cognitive capacity represents the process constraint.
Frank Gleeson, Vincent Hargaden
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(Re)defining care workers as knowledge workers
Human Resource Management International Digest, 2010Care workers are knowledge workers in the sense that their knowledge and skills substantially influence the quality of care. However, the types of knowledge needed by care workers and the ways they expand their knowledge are different from those suggested for typical knowledge workers, who basically acquire and update theoretical knowledge through ...
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Managing knowledge-intensive workers
Nature Biotechnology, 2012A manager's ability to provide knowledge workers with the personalized goals, motivation and tools they need to perform at their best will bring outstanding results.
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