Describe an approach for motivating knowledge workers to accomplish great results.

You will describe an ideal approach for motivating knowledge workers to achieve outstanding results. Your approach is to use ideas and tools studied in the course. These may be from Maslow, any of the Theorists, or other materials.

The syllabus assigns 15 points for this assignment; they are distributed as noted below.

Part 1

This is a preliminary version of your approach. It is to be short, about two paragraphs, to get you thinking about the problem. It will be due by Class 7. The grade for this part will be 2 points. Here is the specific Assignment

Part 2

This is your full plan which is due at Class 12.

Use the material covered in this course as well as written materials obtained elsewhere (if you desire). You may find that you need to make assumptions; if so, be sure to specify them.

Present your plan in a typed, double spaced, paper of 3 to 4 pages using the material covered in this course as well as written materials obtained elsewhere (if you desire). The designated 13% course grade for Motivation of Knowledge Workers is shown in Grading for Part 2 below.

Knowledge Worker–some ideas

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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244016639631 (Links to an external site.)

“A knowledge worker is anyone who works for a living at the tasks of developing or using For example, a knowledge worker might be someone who works at any of the tasks of planning, acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, distributing, marketing, or otherwise contributing to the transformation and commerce of information and those (often the same people) who work at using the knowledge so produced. A term first used by Peter Drucker in his 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow, the knowledge worker includes those in the information technology fields, such as programmers, systems analysts, technical writers, academic professionals, researchers, and so forth. The term is also frequently used to include people outside of information technology, such as lawyers, teachers, scientists of all kinds, and also students of all kinds.”

Grading for Part 2

Content 10

1.0 Clear Introduction–States what will be discussed and makes general comments on the topic:

Body

0.75 What are the characteristics of the KW:

1.0 What are the things that might motivate KWs:

2.25 Describe a plan to provide the motivators:

3.0 How are you using ideas, facts, course materials, etc.

1.0 Conclusion summarizes what has been said:

1.0 References either as footnotes or endnotes

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