Talk:Knowledge worker
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I think that Drucker coined the term in 1946 in his book Concept of the Corporation, not 1959.
But perhaps in the Knowledge Age, since we Know that it is good for us, we shall all work on the land, sharing out the available exercise between us. Coriolise 17:42, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The earliest reference I can find to "knowledge worker" is in the Epilogue of the 1964 Mentor Edition of "Concept of the Corporation" on page 241. See: Drucker, P. F. (1964). Concept of the corporation: Mentor edition. New York: The John Day Company, Inc. Shevek57 (talk) 20:30, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Managing information overload
This section is an extended advertisement for Factavia. It doesn't belong in an article about Knowledge Workers. Anyone can suffer from information overload. There's an MIS textbook case of a fighter pilot shot down over Vietnam in spite of hearing his AA missle alert siren. He heard it, but with tactical and command radios, his wizzo, the enemy, his mission, and his instruments, he didn't process the information correctly. In short, he suffered information overload. The point is, he certainly wasn't a knowledge worker. If you want to advertise your company, do it in some other article please. Rklawton 15:29, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
- RKLawton - please read a little Peter Drucker before commenting on what is and isn't relevant to the knowledge worker. In particular "Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge." (unsigned comment by anonymous User:70.19.84.92).
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- It isn't polite to assume what I have or have not read. I am well familiar with Drucker. The point, however, is that information overload isn't specific to knowledge workers. Indeed, the topic has its own article. If you read the version of this article in question, you'll see an editor raised matter simply to SPAM the article. Rklawton 18:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bullxxxx Bingo
oh, so a blacksmith is a knowledge worker? i mean, who would deny that those, too develop and use knowledge at their workplace... this is only one in a series of unbearably bloated articles whose common trait appears to be that they in some way or other cite simard (whom i don't know personally and against whom i bear no grudge). i pray to the self-healing powers of wp that this will sometime soon come to a good (and non-redundant) end. -- Kku 17:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge proposal
It is proposed that Intellectual worker and Brain worker merge into Knowledge worker.
Relocated discussion from Talk:Intellectual worker#Merge with Knowledge worker:
Should be merged with knowledge worker..? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephan Mosel (talk • contribs) Is there any real reason NOT to merge them? They do seem to be adressing the same subject. I see no distinction, and no reason to further keep the two separate. One article with more information would be better than two articles which are, honestly, not much bigger than stubs. Mitchell 06:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
- If you are talking about the brain worker & knowledge worker pages, I would definitely agree. As for the knowledge worker page, I think there's certainly a good case for merging this page with that one, as the terms are often used interchangably; however, it could be argued that there is a very subtle difference between "knowledge worker" & "intellectual/brain worker" and that there is therefore some merit in keeping them as separate articles. They are sometimes used in slightly different contexts & have a slightly different emphasis (i.e. intellect vs. knowledge - you can possess plenty of either one without much of the other!). "Knowledge worker" has become a management/occupational psychology/business buzzword, whereas "intellectual worker" is more often used in the context of politics/sociology/philosophy etc. Although I'm not sure if this subtle distinction is overridden by the fact that they are treated by most people as pretty much interchangable, especially since I am not aware of an writer who has emphasised the differences between the two. But brain worker & intellectual worker are definately interchangable & should therefore be merged. Missdipsy 17:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
- Your comment is a bit confusing - I guess you meant that brain worker & knowledge worker are definitely interchangeable and should be merged, whereas intellectual worker may have a different emphasis? --Chris Howard (talk) 14:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)