Increased productivity of knowledge workers

• Increased productivity of knowledge workers and self-actualization of the knowledge workers themselves can be achieved in the same way.

• Drucker. Management in Practice

• Hold knowledge workers accountable themselves.

  • Are you making a contribution worthy of your compensation?
  • What contributions are being made?
  • What are you going to do to contribute?
  • This must be asked of the knowledge workers themselves.
  • Knowledge workers must be able to explain their contributions

• Enable knowledge workers to value their own contributions

  • Need to be able to perceive how their contributions have changed the company.
  • Need to know what to do.
    • The idea that R & D can’t be evaluated is falseManaging R&D
    • What contributions have you made to change the company in the last couple of years?
    • What contribution will you make to change the company in the next couple of years?
  • You may not be able to measure it, but if you don’t allow yourself to evaluate your contribution, you will not be moved to contribute.

• Let knowledge workers do what they are supposed to do.

  • incentive
  • willingness (e.g. to do something)

• For opportunities, put in place personnel who can turn opportunities into results.

  • First we must recognize the opportunity.
  • We have to assign people to those opportunities.
  • The assignee must be the right person.
  • The right people are those who can turn those opportunities into results
  • We must know who are the people who will deliver results.
  • We must know what is currently assigned to that personnel.

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