updated: 23 August 2007


 

Knowledge
The word 'knowledge' is defined in a number of different ways. In the words of one commentator, 'the definitional problem of terms like knowledge economy or knowledge society often seem to follow from a reluctance to consider what knowledge is in epistemological or cognitive terms.
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Knowledge database
A knowledge database is often a tool of knowledge management. It collects together the accumulated codified knowledge of specialist workers in order to make it more generally available.
 
Knowledge management
Knowledge management is a term used to describe the process of ensuring that the knowledge of the workers in an organisation (sometimes known as the organisation's cultural capital ) can be fully exploited and shared.
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Knowledge society
Whereas the concept of the information society has a strong technological bias (related to the use of information and communications technologies), the notion of a 'knowledge society' or 'knowledge-based society' implies four significant features:
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Knowledge work
According to Thompson, 'The implicit model of the traditional knowledge worker is someone who has access to, learns and is qualified to practice, a body of knowledge that is formal, complex or abstract.
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Knowledge-intensity of jobs
This term refers to the characteristics of a job, the implication being that jobs may be more or less knowledge intensive. There exist approaches to measure the knowledge intensity of jobs.
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Knowledge-intensive work
Knowledge intensive work includes the active and independent acquisition, processing, and development of knowledge (and information).
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