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Are You a Knowledge Worker? |
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Susan Aaron |
In the '50s,
management guru Peter Drucker introduced the term
knowledge worker to describe a rapidly growing subset of
the workforce. According to whatis.com, a knowledge
worker is, "anyone who works for a living at the tasks
of developing or using knowledge."
That's a good but very broad definition of a
sophisticated concept. To sort out whether you are a
knowledge worker, answer the questions below to see
where you fit. To develop the answers, MonsterLearning
talked with Mike Rusiello, president and CEO of
Brainbench. He created the online certification service
to help educate knowledge workers.
You work with information. But what do you
really do with it?
If you create, transform or repackage information,
you're a knowledge worker. One of the key themes of
knowledge work is that it's defined by results.
"Data entry is not knowledge work.бн You're dealing with
information, but the structure of the information
doesn't change," says Rusiello. Lawyers, on the other
hand, take information in the form of laws and cases and
apply that information to new cases.
What don't you do?
"The dominant type of occupation has gone from farm
laborer, to blue collar worker, to white collar worker,
to knowledge worker."
How stable is your job?
Instability is one of the determining factors of a
knowledge economy. In a 1993 article, Drucker explained
that 30 or so years ago he "began to counsel that
[companies] should build organized abandonment into
[their] system. It follows the old line that it makes
more sense for you to make obsolete your own products
than to wait for the competitor to do it."
New products demand new knowledge. You're a knowledge
worker if prior qualifications for your job are no
longer valid.
Does your boss know exactly what you do?
"A knowledge worker is someone who, by definition, knows
more about what he does on a day-to-day basis than his
boss," explains Rusiello. The reason for this is the
pace of change in your industry and particular
profession.
If you were promoted tomorrow, how soon would you be
unable to fill in for someone in your old job?
Again, knowledge workers have to keep up with so much
new material that stepping outside of their field would
quickly make them obsolete. Just like walking alongside
something on a conveyer belt -- if you stop, you'll fall
behind.
Do you need to learn continuously to keep your
job?
Being a knowledge worker "demands an attitude of
continuous learning. You have to expect you'll need new
knowledge" to do your job a month from now.
Do you and your peers have traditional
educational backgrounds?
Not too long ago, the norm was to complete your
education by your mid-20s, but now "there's certainly an
attitude that it's never too late to take your education
to the next level," Rusiello says. There's also an
explosion of nondegree education. Your job may require a
new skill that can be picked up from a book, a week-long
course or "certification programs that speak to
describing your knowledge in a more granulated way."
Are you rewarded for what you know, or for what you've
done?
Knowledge workers are skilled and know a lot about their
industries, but they're valued for what they accomplish.
If your manager isn't completely aware of everything you
do, he can only judge you on results. A Webmaster who
develops a site for a manager who doesn't know how to
code will be judged on the final result -- the site --
not the elegance of the code.
Does your job involve repetition?
Repetition is not a knowledge worker word. If you've
done the same thing every day since you were initially
trained, you aren't a knowledge worker.
Why is it so important to know if you're a knowledge
worker? If you're a knowledge worker, you should be
alert to the behaviors you need to adopt in order to
remain employed -- namely, staying informed and freshly
skilled. |
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