Essays on Knowledge Worker

Introduction

Unlike the old times, the 21st century has evolved form an industrial economy straight to an information economy. Industrial economy was founded on the normal principle of 9-5 office time. This is an implication that office work was scheduled for 9am-5pm without taking into consideration the amount of work and productivity of a worker. An information economy, on the other hand, is pillared on knowledge management. This is when a worker can comfortably and productively work without putting emphasis on the traditional 9-5 rule of office. The notion of knowledge worker was conceived form this principle. A knowledge worker is ...

The internet was created in 1967 as a governmental sponsored university communication network that quickly evolved into a worldwide web that linked the world, transforming the way people live. Today, the average American spends 8-12 hours a day staring at a screen, devoting over a third of their free time to internet use. More than half admit to being addicted to the internet and prefer to communicate digitally rather than in person. Heavy internet users are 2.5 times more likely to be depressed (Goode and Caicedo 1061). Furthermore, numerous human resource studies have indicated that the internet and digital communications that were designed to ...

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The key to Richard Branson's leadership style was his ability to overcome difficulties. He was Dyslexic as the other prominent business leaders “Henry Ford , F.W. Woolworth, William Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard, John Chambers of Cisco, Charles Schwab , O.D. McKee of McKee Foods, Paul J. Orfalea of Kinko’s and Ted Turner” (Richard Branson, 2009). R. Branson adapted to his inability to read fluently by relying on the skills of people around him, on his management team. Finally he found the simpler approaches to management through his delegating leadership style without delving into the details. He turned into the ‘managing ...