Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard

doi:10.1086/666587

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“…On the other hand, letting the worker accumulate knowledge later, the employer obtains lower returns because the remaining horizon is shorter, but the worker's incentives to quit become weaker. Hvide and Kristiansen () also deal with the management of knowledge workers. They study how both firm‐specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers.…”

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Knowledge Accumulation Within an Organization

Long

Soubeyran

2014

International Economic Review

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Abstract:We develop a simple model of task allocation for knowledge workers over their career within an organization. The human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962Becker ( , 1964 has offered a rich analysis of an individual's life cycle investment in human capital. One of the main result of this literature states that human capital investments are undertaken at the early stage of the career because workers have then a longer period of time over which they can benefit from the return of their investments. In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. In the first best situation, we show a similar result as in the human capital theory, i.e. the share of time allocated to knowledge creation tasks decreases over time. We then ask how this pattern is affected when the knowledge worker can leave the organization and benefit from this knowledge outside the organization. In this case, we obtain the novel result that the time path of the fraction of working time allocated to knowledge creation tasks is non-monotone. This fraction is highest at the early career stage, falls gradually, then rises again, before falling finally toward zero.We also show that an increase in the firm-specificity of knowledge can increase or decrease the life-time income of the knowledge worker.JEL codes: J24, C61, D23, J41, L00

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Knowledge Accumulation Within an Organization

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Soubeyran

2014

International Economic Review

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“…An exception is Rotemberg (1993) who analyzes the trade-off between the allocation of decision-making authority and the retention of good workers. Further, Hvide and Kristiansen (2012) and Englmaier et al…”

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“…An exception is Rotemberg () who analyzes the trade‐off between the allocation of decision‐making authority and the retention of good workers. Further, Hvide and Kristiansen () and Englmaier et al () study the firm's problem of retaining knowledge workers. Their focus is on how the acquisition of valuable information by workers affects incentives and retention.…”

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Relational retention

Herbold

Schumacher

2020

Manage Decis Econ

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This paper uses a repeated-game model to study the retention of talented workers in the face of competition for talent. When the job benefits that workers value are non-contractible, retention cannot be achieved by a sequence of spot contracts, but must be based on self-enforcing long-term agreements, which we call relational retention contracts. Retention then is successful only if workers trust their employers' promises. We demonstrate that relational contracts are valuable even if there are no incentive problems inside firms and that firms with a relatively low valuation for talent may be able to retain talented workers.

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“…This culture of the individuality of the KW has its origins in the significant personal profile of an employee and professional passion, which translates into the specifics of motivation to work in an organization (Trzcieliński et al, 2013). The distinctive factors which create the term KW have been partially subjected to empirical research Ignacek-Kuźnicka, 2017b, 2018;Davenport, 2007;Evans, 2005;Fowler, 2015;Huang, 2011;Hvide, and Kristiansen, 2012;Jezusek, 2018;Jureczka, 2018;Maciariello, 2016;Parmenter, 2016;Pluta, 2018;Šajeva, 2007). The constitutive need for autonomy by KW is reflected in the attitude of KW to the rules on copyrights adopted by organizations (Harlow, 2018;Steinmann and Schreyogg, 2001).…”

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Influence of Knowledge Workers Work Motivation on Their Job Performance - Results of Empirical Research

Bieńkowska¹,

Ignacek-Kuźnicka²

2020

CEBR

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The article focuses on the analysis of the results of empirical research, which shows how motivation of knowledge workers influences their job performance. The analysis focuses on characteristics (that are differentia specifica) of a knowledge worker and their impact on the results achieved in their organization. It was assumed that the impact of motivation on job performance increases together with the intensity of these characteristics. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to verify the influence of motivation on knowledge workers' job performance. In order to verify the formulated hypothesis, an empirical study with the use of a questionnaire was conducted among employees of 204 organizations operating in Poland. Methods of statistical description and estimation were used, including correlation analysis and regression analysis with moderator. A positive relation was established between the absorption of knowledge workers' characteristics and work motivation, and a positive relation between absorption of knowledge workers' characteristics and job performance. Together with the verification of the knowledge workers' characteristics as the mediator of the relation between work motivation and job performance, the study allows for the advancement of the existing (and described) research area. The obtained results allow only to preliminarily verify the raised issue which proves that it is a field of study undoubtedly worth exploring further.

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Knowledge Accumulation Within an Organization

Knowledge Accumulation Within an Organization

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Influence of Knowledge Workers Work Motivation on Their Job Performance - Results of Empirical Research

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