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Managing knowledge-intensive workers

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A manager's ability to provide knowledge workers with the personalized goals, motivation and tools they need to perform at their best will bring outstanding results.

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  1. Sebastiano Massaro is in the Management Science and Innovation Department at University College London, and the Department of Sociology at Boston University, London, UK, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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