HBR Case Study BY JON HEALEY COMMENTARY BY RICHARD L. TRUMKA‚ RICHARD B. FREEMAN‚ AND JEFFREY ANDERSON The Knowledge Workers’ Strike How much leverage do unions have in a bad economic climate? THE CHROME AND GLASS FACADE of Detonation Media’s headquarters in Mountain View‚ California‚ gleamed in the warm April sun. On the broad front terrace‚ a crowd of camera-ready demonstrators from the Software Engineers Guild milled about and chanted: “No deal‚ no code‚ no games!” The protesters toted
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7637434 The Question: “Examine the claim that the management of knowledge workers requires the development of human resource practises that are more suited to the particular characteristics of these workers and their jobs” Introduction The term “knowledge worker” was first used by Peter Drucker in “Landmarks of Tomorrow” in 1959. A knowledge worker is someone who specialises in a specific field as they possess certain knowledge which has been accrued through specific courses or experience in relevant
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Knowledge workers play a vital role in the development and success of a business. As Bovee‚ Thill‚ and Mescon (2007) explained‚ knowledge is the “expertise gained through experience or research.” (p. 30) With this knowledge‚ comes an ethical responsibility to the employer. As a result‚ employees of every business sector are faced with situations that require ethical decisions to be made. In fact‚ some may continue to encounter these situations even after they are no longer employed with a company
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Brandon Burge MBA 523 27 March 2010 The Knowledge Workers’ Strike Case Analysis Any negotiation can be tricky‚ but especially ones in which differently positioned‚ opposing sides are trying to decide what is fair. These situations can grow from a single spark into a raging firestorm before either side knows what really happened. In the situation of Detonation and the Software Engineers Guild (SEG)‚ both sides sit anxiously to determine what issue the other side is willing to give on in
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New Realities In the past 150 years‚ America and the world has experienced a paradigm shift in the study of Public Administration‚ political realities‚ the government political processes‚ economy-ecology and the drastic transformation of our knowledge society. The New Realities book is Dr Drucker field guide to the large-scale paradoxes of our time. Dr Drucker hypothesis are a penetrating examination of the central issues‚ trends‚ and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities
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February 7‚ 2013 Article Review and Critique: “Knowledge -Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge” By Michael E. Porter (1999) Synopsis This article first introduces there are not specific knowledge workers before. The workers are all thought as manual workers. Peter F. Drucker pointed out two different types of workers in all types of business environments: the manual worker and the knowledge worker. He also explains the importance of the knowledge work Then Frederick Winslow Taylor first defined
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2nd Special Focus Symposium on ICESKS: Information‚ Communication and Economic Sciences in the Knowledge Society Zadar‚ November 13th to 14th‚ 2008 HRM practices in managing knowledge workers Ing. Martin Šikýř‚ Department of Personnel Management‚ Faculty of Business Administration‚ University of Economics‚ Prague‚ Winston Churchill Sg. 4‚ 130 67 Prague 3‚ Czech Republic‚sikyrm@vse.cz Prof.dr.sc. Damir Boras‚ Faculty of Philosophy‚ University of Zagreb‚ Croatia Ljubica Bakić-Tomić‚ Ph.D
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EXPLANATION Helen De Cieri‚ Cathy Sheehan‚ Christina Costa‚ Marilyn Fenwick & Brian Cooper Working Paper 10/07 March 2007 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT WORKING PAPER SERIES ISSN 1327–5216 Abstract This paper examines the role of identity in knowledge workers’ intentions to repatriate after international work experience. Using a sample of 563 Australian professionals currently working overseas‚ we investigate the relationships between intention to repatriate and national identity‚ factors that ‘pull’
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5. THE CHALLENGE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY Main Idea The most important contribution of management in the 20th Century was to increase manual worker productivity in manufacturing by around fifty-fold. The key management challenge of the 21st Century is to bring about a similar increase in the productivity of knowledge workers. Supporting Ideas All the economic and social gains of the 20th century‚ including the emergence of the "developed" countries‚ were made squarely on the back of increases
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consumer‚ as the referred by Child (2005). Knowing Knowledge Workers With new technologies shaping the way we communicate‚ interrelate and how the information is made available to us from anywhere in the world (Child 2005)‚ this led to the restructuring of organizations‚ which was only possible by “destroying the illusion that the world is created of separate‚ unrelated forces” (Senge‚ 1990‚ p.343). In this atmosphere emerged the knowledge workers - a term coined by Druker to define those who work
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