Search Results - subject:"Knowledge Workers"

Do service sector trends stimulate entrepreneurship? A socio-economic labour market perspective

Bogenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 1 (2008) 2, pp. 117-134

coincides with the trend towards a so-called knowledge economy and a revival of new self-employed independent knowledge-workers. …

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Play your best hand : how to manage the four types of knowledge workers and stack the odds for maximum sussess ; innovations, motivators, activators, implementors

Ralston, Faith - 2007

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Managing knowledge to fuel growth

Davenport, Tom (contributor) - 2007

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Redefining Firm Competencies, Innovation and Labour Mobility: A Case Study in Telecommunication Services

Ramirez, Matias - In: Industry and Innovation 14 (2007) 3, pp. 325-347

interest in establishing flexible employment relationships with “knowledge workers” and greater labour mobility as a means of … knowledge workers may also lead to the weakening of essential firm competencies. The discussion suggests, that rather than …

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Knowledge workers: what keeps them committed; what turns them away

Benson, John; Brown, Michelle - In: Work, Employment & Society 21 (2007) 1, pp. 121-141

workers may result in the application of inappropriate HRM policies and practices. Our focus is on knowledge workers as they … attitudinal and behavioural commitment. We find, using responses from 1969 employees, knowledge workers have higher attitudinal … commitment and lower intention to quit than routine-task workers. Further, the antecedents of commitment for knowledge workers …

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Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multilevel Analysis

Boh, Wai Fong; Slaughter, Sandra A.; Espinosa, J. Alberto - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 8, pp. 1315-1331

This study examines whether individuals, groups, and organizational units learn from experience in software development and whether this learning improves productivity. Although prior research has found the existence of learning curves in manufacturing and service industries, it is not clear...

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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...

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European cities in the knowledge economy : the cases of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Munich, Münster, Rotterdam and Zaragoza

Berg, Leo van ¬den (contributor) - 2005

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Cookbook for market dominance and shareholder value : standardising the roles of knowledge workers

Sherringham, Keith - 2005

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Changing the role of workplace design within the business organisation: A model for linking workplace design solutions to business strategies

Levin, Arnold Craig - In: Journal of Facilities Management 3 (2005) 4, pp. 299-311

With the continuous changing nature of work and increasing demands on business organisations to remain competitive and to continually innovate, while controlling ever increasing real estate costs, the role of the workplace remains the battle ground between an organisation's cost savings...

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