Fundamentals of Management, 8th ed


Managing Knowledge Workers



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Managing Knowledge Workers

Employees traditionally added value to organizations because of what they did or

because of their experience. In the “information age,” however, many employees add

value because of what they know.

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The Nature of Knowledge Work

These employees are usually called



knowledge

workers

, and the skill with which they are managed is a major factor in determining

which firms will be successful in the future. Knowledge workers, including computer

scientists, engineers, and physical scientists, provide special challenges for the HR man-

ager. They tend to work in high-technology firms and are usually experts in some

abstract knowledge base. They often like to work independently and tend to identify

more strongly with their profession than with any organization—even to the extent of

defining performance in terms recognized by other members of their profession.

As the importance of information-driven jobs grows, the need for knowledge work-

ers continues to grow as well. But these employees require extensive and highly special-

ized training, and not every organization is willing to make the human capital

investments necessary to take advantage of these jobs. In fact, even after knowledge

workers are on the job, retraining and training updates are critical to prevent their

skills from becoming obsolete. It has been suggested, for example, that the “half-life”

of a technical education in engineering is about three years. The failure to update

such skills will not only result in the loss of competitive advantage but also increase

the likelihood that the knowledge worker will go to another firm that is more committed

to updating them.




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