conclusions the effects of rp knowledge, attitude, and practice on job stress were significant. in order to reduce job stress in radiation environments, ongoing training programs related to self-care and protection principles are recommended. results the prevalence rate of job stress was 22.5% based on calculation formulas and possible scores on the jcq. sex, rp-knowledge, attitude, practice, a...

BACKGROUND Acute pesticide poisoning in developing countries is a considerable problem, requiring diagnosis and treatment. This study describes how training of health care workers in Uganda affects their ability to diagnose and manage acute pesticide poisoning. METHOD A postintervention cross-sectional study was conducted using a standardized questionnaire. A total of 326 health care workers ...

Intention to knowledge sharing is a growing concern that has been largely discussed in extant literature using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB). However, the studies have mostly neglected the influence of individual psychological needs of knowledge workers on intention to share knowledge. Combining the TPB with McClelland’s three psychological needs approach, the study aims at uncoverin...

Due to the knowledge economy emergence, many terminologies were added to the management studies’ literature such as knowledge work, knowledge workers, knowledge organizations and knowledge management. Most of these terms are still debatable in the literature and practice. This review will be critically discussing knowledge work and workers. Although many statistics and definitions supported the...

We discuss design issues of iMapping, a novel approach for visually structuring information objects on the desktop. iMapping provides a user-interface layer on top of semantic desktop technologies which shall especially support personal knowledge management and personal information organization. iMapping allows for user-friendly articulation, semantic annotation and interlinking of personal kno...

Purpose – The paper seeks to investigate ways to attract and retain knowledge workers in a globally successful knowledge city or a city aspiring to

In this paper we motivate how personal knowledge models can make knowledge workers more productive. The external representation can help him to tackle typical cognitive limits. They do so by allowing a knowledge worker to efficiently and effectively model her or his personal knowledge in a mix of informal and formal knowledge. As a result, more knowledge can be re-used cheaper and hopefully mor...

Knowledge workers have different applications and resources in heterogeneous environments for doing their knowledge tasks and they often need to solve a problem through combining several resources. Typical personal knowledge management (PKM) systems do not provide effective ways for representing knowledge worker’s unstructured knowledge or idea. In order to provide better knowledge activity for...