An Empirical Study of Managing Knowledge Workers

Migrant knowledge workers: An empirical study of global Sydney as a knowledge city

Global Sydney is essentially a knowledge city. The global Sydney thesis has focused on Sydney’s performances in the knowledge-based economy, especially the advanced producer services, in an increasingly integrated world economy. Sydney’s emergence as a global city has been inseparable from its migrants from overseas and elsewhere in Australia. This study aims to bridge the theses of global Sydn...

Workers' propensity to telecommute: An empirical study

Today's telecommuting workforce encompasses all categories of workers including managers, professionals and other knowledge workers. While organizations have the choice of mandating telecommuting or offering it as an option, individuals also have the choice of participating or not when telecommuting is optional. This research investigated whether individual factors, such as age, skills, identi®...

Managing Knowledge in the Dark: An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Capability Evaluations

Managing Knowledge Workers in the E-world

Knowledge Management is a recent development in business, allowing for an organization to increase its competitive advantage. Managing the knowledge worker of today is much different from managing the rank and file employees of the past. It is important to understand the knowledge workers, their traits and personalities, before learning how to best manage them. This paper discusses these issues...

Sources of Influence on Beliefs about Information Technolgoy Use: An Empirical Study of Knowledge Workers

Individual beliefs about technology use have been shown to have a profound impact on subsequent behaviors toward information technology (IT). This research note builds upon and extends prior research examining factors that influence key individual beliefs about technology use. It is argued that individuals form beliefs about their use of information technologies within a broad milieu of influen...