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Article: Tacit knowledge: a refinement and empirical test of the Academic Tacit Knowledge Scale.(Report)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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AS THE COSTS OF FINDING, TRAINING, AND RETAINING qualified employees continue to rise, managers are looking for improved ways of identifying and classifying the important attributes of high-quality employees. An area that has increasingly received attention is the value of tacit knowledge as a predictor of future success. Individual and group tacit knowledge have been shown to improve organizational performance (Berman, Down, & Hill, 2002; Sternberg, Wagner, & Okagaki, 1993; Wagner, 1987; Wagner & Sternberg, 1986). However, despite the increasing interest in tacit knowledge, measuring it remains problematic.
If there is a link between tacit knowledge and ...