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KNOWLEDGE WORKERS AND WORKER ENVIRONMENTS

What, then, is a positive environment for the knowledge worker? Benest points out that competitive salaries and benefits is only a...

APPLYING SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY

objectives: first, development of a science for each element of a particular work that would replace the old method; second, the s...

Knowledge Management

knowledge (Buckman, 2004). There are certainly other definitions. However, one does get a sense that knowledge management may be t...

A Definition of Knowledge Management

application of knowledge to maximize an enterprises knowledge-related effectiveness and returns from its knowledge assets" (p.1-6)...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

Knowing Receipt and Knowledge

would be expected of a reasonable and honest man (Matthews, 2001). This is a step beyond type ii, but is also a failure on the par...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Knowledge, What We Know and How We Know It

may use divergent approaches, such as those of feminism and critical enquiry. In the arguments of feminism there is a reflection o...

Contemporary Knowledge of HIV

chromosomes of the affected cell. This duplication process is carried out with the help of an enzymatic reaction controlled by th...

September 11, 2001 and Speculation on Prior Knowledge by the U.S.

only were imaginable, they also were foreshadowed" (Ahmed). Then- Secretary of State Colin Powell stated after the fact that ther...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Knowledge Management

are all examples of KM being used today" (Swartz, 2003, p. 53). Hilson explained: "KM refers to the collection and sharing of info...

Knowledge and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Self Knowledge and Confessions

book is the actual confession, which turns out to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an ...

Knowledge Motif in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...

'People's Knowledge About Depression' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

matter, as revealed by the survey likewise demonstrates an error in judgment. The article goes on to report the following: "One qu...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

History, Literature, Knowledge, and Native Americans

always well-received by those who consider the humorous aspect out of place. Welchs (2003) approach when he crafted his account w...

United Kingdom's Knowledge Based Economy

In 1998 Chase predicted that the world economy would be undergoing a rapid period of change with the new knowledge based economy t...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

United States' Defense Industry and Knowledge Management

projects which are "sponsored by functional proponents" (1999, p.23). Using online methods does help the defense industry to trans...

FDR and Pearl Harbor Knowledge

Roosevelt actually knew of the plans and did not take action to prepare the military for the Japanese attack, then this would have...

Knowledge and the Roles of Beauty and Art

in a commercial seed catalog. I thought they were great, Hickey enthuses. Those paintings were the opposite of anything anybody ...

Professional and Knowledge Role Fulfilled by Criminal Justice

The profession and knowledge role fulfilled by criminal justice is examined in twelve pages. Eighteen sources are cited in the bi...

Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...