Exploring the meaning and drivers of personal (Un-)Productivity of knowledge workers in mobile settings

2022 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Alessandra Abeille ◽  
Jacek Pawlak ◽  
Aruna Sivakumar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers

Assessment of motor activity of knowledge workers (on the example of employees of social service centers)

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 727-729
Author(s):  
Nadezhda S. Belyakova ◽  
Artyom K. Sergeev
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Motor Activity ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Actual Body Weight ◽  
Service Center ◽  
Work Shift ◽  
Working Day ◽  
The Ideal

Introduction. The work of many employees in the service sector is associated with a constant stay in a forced working position sitting at the computer for up to 60-80% of the time of the entire work shift, which leads to fatigue. The rate of fatigue depends on the specifics of work: it is much more likely to occur when working with monotony, muscle tension. An important role in the appearance of fatigue is also played by the attitude of a person to the work performed. The aim of study is to study the motor activity of knowledge workers in social service centers for the development of preventive measures aimed at reducing hypokinesia and hypodynamia during the work shift. Materials and methods. The following methods were used in the study: questionnaire and working day timing, calculation methods to determine whether the actual body weight corresponds to the ideal one using the Broka’s index and the Ketle’s index. The study involved employees of the integrated social service center "Raduga" in Bugulma. Results. An assessment of the motor activity of employees of the social service center of the population was made, and it was concluded that the problem of hypokinesia and hypodynamia is relevant and significant for employees of social service centers of the population both in their daily activities and during the work shift. Most of the employees showed an increase in actual body weight compared to the ideal one, which is to some extent due to hypokinesia and hypodynamia both during the working day and at home. Conclusions. Preventive measures aimed at compliance with the principles of rational nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, work and rest regimes, high-quality preliminary and periodic medical examinations are proposed.

Wisdom

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Mohamad Fauzan Noordin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Executive Information Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Knowledge Hierarchy ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The levels of knowledge hierarchy (i.e., data, information, knowledge, and wisdom), are described in the Qur’an, the ahadith, and the literature produced during Islamic civilization’s Golden Age. They also have been discussed by western and non-Muslim scholars. However, while implementing and using information and communication technology (ICT), only the first three levels are currently being explored and utilized. Wisdom has not been discussed to any great extent. ICT has designed systems to assist us and has improved our life and work. However, such tools as decision-support systems and executive information systems comprise only data, information, and knowledge. Comprehensiveness does not guarantee the possession of wisdom. Taking things apart is knowledge; putting things together is wisdom. Muslim scholars of the Golden Age analyzed data, drew relationships and interpreted data to create information, identified and determined the pattern to represent knowledge, and understood the foundational principles for the patterns to implement wisdom. Wisdom must be included if ICT is to be complete. People, organizations, and the nation must strive for wisdom as the ultimate goal: from an information society to a knowledge society to a wisdom society, and from information workers to knowledge workers to wisdom workers.

Knowledge workers as fractals in a complex adaptive organization

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snunith Shoham ◽  
Alon Hasgall
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Complex Adaptive

scholarly journals Beyond Knowledge Capitalism’s Happy Labour Subject

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110281
Author(s):  
Breda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Social Contributions ◽  
A Site ◽  
Study Participants

This article unravels the workings of happiness as integral to knowledge capitalism’s ‘emotionality of rule’ from the perspectives of two cohorts of ‘knowledge workers’: digital creatives and academics. It analyses the ways in which the study participants make work a site of personal fulfilment and happiness as they strive to become ‘happy’ labour subjects. Despite their different worklife trajectories, both cohorts appeal to the promise of happy entrepreneurial productivism. This promise attaches workers to the privileges of knowledge work in ways that downplay its costs. However, the dominance of knowledge capitalism’s happy labour subject is challenged by the backgrounded significance of work’s social benefits in their accounts. As such, this article argues that the individualised depoliticisation of contemporary ‘knowledge work’ can be challenged by re-valorising work’s social contributions.

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