Research Catalog

Title

Managing knowledge workers : unleashing innovation and productivity / A.D. Amar.

Author

Amar, A. D. (Amar D.)

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

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Details

Description

xiv, 248 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Knowledge management
• Intellectual capital
• Knowledge workers
• Employee empowerment
• Labor productivity

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Sect. I. Knowledge Organizations. 1. Knowledge Organizations and Environment. App. 1-1. E-Business: Selection and Adaptation of Products and Services for the Internet Commerce -- Sect. II. Knowledge Workers. 2. Sociology of Knowledge Workers. 3. Training, Learning, and Behavior Modification in a Knowledge Environment -- Sect. III. Knowledge Work and Organization. 4. Making Knowledge Work a Pleasure. 5. Teaming and Grouping Strategies: It's a Symbiosis. 6. Knowledge Work Organization and Design -- Sect. IV. Management Functions in Knowledge Organizations. 7. Make Sure No One Decides for Them. 8. Leading to Be a Leader. 9. Keeping Them Going: Motivation in Knowledge Environment. 10. Putting Them in Control. App. 10-1. Controls and Creativity in Organization. 11. Lifting Them Up: Combating Low Morale in Knowledge Organizations -- Sect. V. Future of Knowledge Organizations. 12. Knowledge Organizations in the Twenty-First Century.

ISBN

1567204481 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001019871

OCLC

• ocm46685206
• SCSB-4225095

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries