- Mar 2024
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The term 'knowledge work' appeared in The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959) by Peter Drucker.[12] Drucker later coined the term 'knowledge worker' in The Effective Executive[13] in 1966. Later, in 1999, he suggested that "the most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."
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- Aug 2022
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medium.com medium.com
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The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers.”
!- For : Indyweb - Can Indyweb play a role in increasing productivity by 50x?
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- Jul 2022
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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the definingcharacteristic of knowledge workers is that they arethemselves changed by the information theyprocess.’ So, the workers interviewed saw theirvalue to an organisation being to understand a bodyof knowledge and generate new information fromthis understanding which changed either theorganisation or its customer in a direct way.
a more refined and nuanced definition of knowledge workers than Peter Drucker's 1973 definition.
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Peter Drucker, the distinguished commentator onorganisation and management, has popularised theterm “knowledge worker” to describe the role of agrowing percentage of employees in businessorganisations: “The manual worker is yesterday..,..The basic capital resource, the fundamentalinvestment, but also the cost centre for a developedeconomy is the knowledge worker who puts to work
what he has learned in systematic education, that is, concepts, ideas and theories, rather than the man who puts to work manual skill or muscle, ” [5]. 5. Drucker, P. F. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices, Harper & Row; New York, 1973.
Influential management consultant, educator, and author Peter Drucker helped to popularize the concept of the "knowledge worker" by way of his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices (Harper & Row, 1973).
Who/where is the origin of the neologism/idea of "knowledge worker"?
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- Nov 2015
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courses.edx.org courses.edx.org
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The machine, of course, is not complete without a third party, the (human) operator, and it is within this triad that the text takes place.
It reminds me of the machine performance, the human performance and the idea of the text as a performative event (as in Johanna Drucker's theory of performative materiality).
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