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SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
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The role of the manager as merely an overseer of workers is an artifact of the Industrial Age paradigm, no longer appropriate to the Knowledge Age. Increasingly, middle managers' heads are on the chopping blocks of budget-tightening corporations, and those who fail to transform. themselves into 'player/coaches' will become obsolete, suggests Thomas H. Davenport, director of Accenture Institute for Strategic Change.
'There is still an important role, albeit a different one, for management in the future,' Davenport writes in The Future of Leadership. 'The single most important factor driving the change in what management entails is the rise and prevalence of knowledge work. '
In advanced economies, knowledge workers now make up more than 50% of workers-or more, depending on how you define 'knowledge worker'. Davenport reports, 'I know of a CEO of a large pizza chain who argues that every worker in the organization is a knowledge worker, and unless they all use knowledge to manage costs, serve customers well, and maintain high quality standards, the organization will not succeed. However, if pizza makers are knowledge workers, who isn't?'

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经理人仅仅充当一个监工的角色是工业时代的典型产物这已经不适用于知识时代。中层经理人因公司预算紧缩命运越发岌岌可危而其中那......

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