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Managing Knowledge Worker, Shandana Shuaib Jan 2008

Managing Knowledge Worker, Shandana Shuaib

Business Review

Knowledge workers are actually those workers in an organization who are sensitive to change. They constantly respond to the changes in the environment by gathering information and then arranging their work accordingly. With the accelerated pace of change, we should not hesitate in accepting the reality that all knowledge workers have significant place in the organization. The importance of their role to any organization that wants to survive in this dynamic epoch cannot be underestimated. Knowledge workers are indispensable for the organizations. They like to have complete autonomy in the work they perform. Their creativity and inquiry-driven learning may be …


Investigating Technicist-Managerialism In The Values Endorsed In Mba Programmes, Sara Khan Jan 2007

Investigating Technicist-Managerialism In The Values Endorsed In Mba Programmes, Sara Khan

Business Review

This article investigates the incidence of technicist-managerialism in two MBA programmes of Pakistan by inquiring into the values endorsed in them. Findings about values found in the two schools are presented in the form of quotes from interviews and excerpts from official publications of these two business schools. Consequences of such thinking are then discussed in the light of management literature.


The Case For Including Study Of Arts In Management Development Curricula, Humayun S. Ansari Jan 2007

The Case For Including Study Of Arts In Management Development Curricula, Humayun S. Ansari

Business Review

Proliferation of business schools and institutes providing business education have resulted in the creation of a vast pool of trained manpower which has little avenues to explore for getting gainful employment. Therefore, we have to discover new avenues, which do not require direct foreign investment for creating employment and adding value to our indigenous intellectual property owners. The thesis of this paper is that the induction of the study of fine arts in business education curricula can help forge a common ground between the two cultures (Arts and Business) and to develop projects that are cooperative and mutually beneficial. This …