Knowledge of university knowledge workers

Abstract

Knowledge workers are expected to possess expert knowledge critical for innovation and progress. For that reason, management of knowledge workers is considered to be a substantial part of knowledge management. Knowledge is always present in explicit and tacit forms. Whilst the explicit knowledge is quite easy to demonstrate, the tacit knowledge is hidden and difficult to observe and measure. In fact, our ability to estimate their proportion is also “tacit”. Nevertheless, using a critical analysis, we make an attempt to categorize knowledge-intensive professions by their balance. Such a categorization (which is predominantly tacit as well) could be exploited by human resource managers during selection of knowledge workers for their best fitting positions.