Overview
- Includes an IT tool to support decision making on profitability of investment in employee qualifications and skills
- Presents the distinction between contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluating intellectual capital
- Presents the Sknowinnov method to forecast the future value of knowledge worker selection towards increasing innovation capacity
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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About this book
This book focuses on understanding the strategic role of the knowledge workers in companies, especially in creating an innovative company. The author presents the 'Sknowinnov method' and a decision-making model for the assessment of the value of strategic knowledge resources in companies.
This method and its approach can be used as excellent tools for a quantitative knowledge analysis in an economic viewpoint. The IT tool that is developed for this method offers support in decision making at a strategic level regarding the profitability of any investment in employee qualifications and skills. The tool also connects the selected determinants described in an innovative company with the value of the personnel usefulness function, enabling the assessment of the rationality and effectiveness of knowledge. HR managers and knowledge management consultants for innovative companies would find this book and the IT tools presented specially useful. This book also adds value to researchers dealing with analysis of quantitative and qualitative methods in intellectual capital research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Knowledge Workers
Book Subtitle: Value Assessment, Methods, and Application Tools
Authors: Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36600-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36599-7Published: 30 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44865-2Published: 21 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36600-0Published: 16 April 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 142
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Human Resource Management, Organization