New knowledge and the inventions related to it have always influenced the development of society. With the eminent rise of industry in the 19th century, mass corporations sprang up, demanding work optimization and a revolution in productivity. The change in productivity lead to significant changes in society, which are occurring to this day. The aim of this thesis will first be to investigate whether the classical theories of organization that arose during the Industrial Revolution are suitable for tackling the challenges we face in the knowledge society of today. At this point, it should be said that the knowledge society will be defined as a society of organizations composed of knowledge workers. The thesis will attempt to prove that the needs of knowledge workers are different from the needs of workers in the industrial age. A difference in management is suspected. This leads us to the second hypothesis, which is that knowledge workers can be most effectively managed through a combination of knowledge management and transformational leadership, as they represent the highest evolutionary level of management and leadership theories and are as such most suitable for increasing knowledge worker productivity.
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