Search results for "knowledge work"

Facilitating radical innovation through secret technology-oriented skunkworks projects: Implications for human resource practices

2021

Technology-oriented skunkworks projects aim at facilitating radical innovation through approaches different from ‘normal’ research and development processes and have their specific organisational challenges. Joint human resource management (HRM) and innovation management research on HRM requirements for technology-oriented skunkworks is so far scarce, revealing a timely research gap and propelling our research question: what are the human resources (HR) practices that best support secret technology-oriented skunkworks projects (compared to HR practices in innovation contexts)? An exploratory case study of a skunkworks project at PSA Peugeot-Citroën (currently Groupe PSA) reveals seven skunk…

Sekcijas "Globalizācijas ietekme uz valsts ekonomiku un biznesu" Ekonomikas un vadības fakultātē (28. janvāris, 2016): Referātu tēzes

2016

Contributions and limitations of self assessment of competences by higher education graduates

2009

This work presents a continuum of competence. On one extreme of which there is a subtlety of concept of competence. On the other, there are rigorous econometric analyses to find the answer to a critical question: ―to what extent is the assessment of competence reliable? ‖ Quest into the etymology helped us providing a rationale in favour of the preferred use of competence over competency. Moreover, we come to trace its roots in French literature where it was in use long before its emergence in English literature. We found that competences were common among various geopolitical locations and inferred that interest in competence has been internationalised realistically. Both English and Frenc…

COVID-19 Remote Work : Body Stress, Self-Efficacy, Teamwork, and Perceived Productivity of Knowledge Workers

2021

Due to COVID-19, companies were forced to adopt new work processes, and reduce modern work environments such as collaboration spaces. Professionals from many fields were forced to work remotely, almost overnight. Little is known about the impact of such non-volunteer remote work on productivity, stress, and other key aspects of work performance. To further our understanding of the impacts of this situation and remote work in general, we conducted an exploratory study by studying 28 knowledge work professionals (researchers, software developers, interior designers, service designers, and development consultants) from the viewpoint of perceived productivity and aspects affecting it in this un…

Particularities of Knowledge Worker's Motivation Strategies in Romanian Organizations

2013

Abstract The employees are the best competitive advantage that one organization could have, since all the other resources could be imitated. In this context, motivated employees are the key to efficiently keeping up with the market forces and sustain the success of any organization. This paper aims to identify the ways in which knowledge workers from Sibiu area are motivated and which are the modern ideas that could improve the current strategies. The article reviews the relevant literature regarding knowledge workers and suggests some guidelines for identifying the recurrent issues in motivating these precious resources, as well as some directions for further research.

The Challenge of Managing Knowledge Workers and Their Skills

2018

Knowledge workers are people with a high degree of expertise; education is the main purpose of their jobs, which includes the processes of creation, distribution, and application of knowledge. One of the major challenges for today’s managers is to find the right tools to manage knowledge workers and measure their performance individually. The increased demand for employees who know how to use their professional skills and their talent to perform complex tasks within the organization has led to the emergence of opportunities, as well as challenges. The aim of this article is to identify and present what are the key skills of knowledge workers and what makes them so difficult to be managed by…

Knowledge Work, Working Time, and Use of Time Among Finnish Dual-Earner Families

2011

The industrial working-time regime is dissolving—not dramatically, but rather as a trend. A new trend is that those in dynamic sectors and in a good labor market position work long hours: Demanding knowledge work appears to require the marginalization of private life. This study investigates the family situation of knowledge workers, the concentration of knowledge workers into family, working time, and use of time in different family types. The analysis is based on the Finnish Use of Time data (1999-2000) using family(spouse)-level data. Compared with other categories of employment, the results suggest only minor quantitative differences between knowledge worker families in working time an…

What's in it for me and you? : Exploring managerial perceptions of employees' work-related social media use

2022

PurposeThis study focuses on managers' perceptions of employees' communicative role in social media, and explores the changes in the contractual nature of employment relations in mediatized workplaces in which the boundaries of professional and private life are becoming more fluid.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach was employed to explore this relatively new phenomenon. The data, comprising 24 interviews with managers responsible for corporate communication and human resources in knowledge-intensive organizations, was thematically analysed.FindingsThe analysis shows that employees' work-related social media use creates new types of exchanges and dependencies between an organi…

Adoption and use of mobile technologies for learning among smallholder farmer communities in Uganda

2016

Mobile learning (mLeaming) in formal education is getting wide spread but little is known about how to adopt mLeaming in non-formal contexts among smallholder farmer communities, who constitute the majority in most African states. These rely on agriculture, yet their livelihoods are affected by immense changes in seasons. Smallholder farmers' access to mobile phones can act as bridges in supporting learning for secure livelihoods. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), we have conducted multiple case studies of the Community Knowledge Worker project in Uganda. The intention was to analyse mobile learning adoption and use practices among farmers. Based on our f…

KNOWLEDGE WORKERS â€" THE MODERN WORKERS PROTOTYPE IN PRESENT AND FUTURE ORGANIZATION

2013

Abstract. The paper aim is to interpret and define the concept of the „knowledge worker†with reference to the context of post-industrial transformation (new economy, information/ knowledge). In the new economy a certain category of specialists, called knowledge-based specialists is emerging. The usual employee works with his hands and produce goods or services. Instead a knowledge worker works with its head instead its hands and produces ideas, knowledge and information. Terms like knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge intensive firms point to emerging social structures and processes in organisations. This focus allows us to analyse organisations in ways that differ from the …