Post Capitalistic Society



The knowledge worker

In Peter Druckers book, "Post Capitalistic Society", he identifies two types of workers: the service oriented worker and the knowledge worker. The knowledge worker produces magnitudes of scale more value for an organization. A knowledge worker represents the "Brains" of an organization. They know how to setup company infrastructure, keep it going, and improve upon its structure. Capital is not as important as knowledge.

A knowledge worker can create a idea without capital, knowledge is brain power. Once the idea is realized, funders provide capital floods transforming the idea into process or product. Knowlege provides an incredible wealth potential. Remove the knowledge worker and growth and productity stagnate or migrate downward. Decrease the number of service workers and operations become more efficient. Historically, as service worker numbers have decreased the number of tasks and output have increased.. Basically, the service worker have been expected to "Do More with less".

Knowledge represents the whole expertise in domains of finance, information, policy, management, etc.. The knowledge worker generates the "Ideas". Ideas are transformed into processes and systems. Its principles of creativity and credibility which provides trust in the idea and the worth of the knowledge worker. Drucker concludes that knowledge itself is profitable. In the post capitalistic society, knowledge produces wealth. Knowledge increases productivity. The sum of knowledge in a domain increases productivity and growth exponentially. Its this radically breakaway in wealth and growth which knowledge provides an organization.