scholarly journals Tacit Knowledge for Military Leadership: Seeking Insight into the Acquisition and Use of Practical Knowledge

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hedlund ◽  
Robert J. Sternberg ◽  
Joseph Psotka
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Insight Into

Tacit Knowledge in Military Leadership: Some Research Products and Their Applications to Leadership Development.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Horvath ◽  
Jennifer Hedlund ◽  
Scott Snook ◽  
George B. Forsythe ◽  
Robert J. Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Military Leadership

Where Knowledge Management Resides within Project Management

2005 ◽  
pp. 138-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Owen ◽  
Frada Burstein
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Formal Knowledge ◽  
Engineering Consulting ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores how an engineering consulting company creates, manages, and reuses knowledge within its projects. It argues that the informal transfer and reuse of knowledge plays a more crucial role than formal knowledge in providing the greatest benefit to the organization. The culture of the organization encourages a reliance on networks (both formal and informal) for the exchange of tacit knowledge, rather than utilizing explicit knowledge. This case study highlights the importance of understanding the drivers of knowledge transfer and reuse in projects. This will provide researchers with an insight into how knowledge management integrates with project management.

Developing a Knowledge-Based Organizational Performance Model for Improving Knowledge Flows in Discontinuous Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Rahinah Ibrahim ◽  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into

Tacit knowledge attenuates particularly quickly in organizations that experience discontinuous membership: the coming and going of organizational roles or positions during a workflow process. Since knowledge flows enable workflows, and workflows drive performance, theory suggests that dynamic knowledge—particularly tacit knowledge—is critical for competitive advantage. This research seeks to extend established organization theory, through integration of emerging knowledge-flow theory, to inform the design of discontinuous organizations. Toward this end, we build a computational model based upon ethnographic study of an affordable housing project that experienced severe discontinuous membership. Analysis of this model reveals problematic theoretical gaps, and provides insight into how scholarly understanding of knowledge flows can extend organization theory to address discontinuous organizations. This research contributes new knowledge for designing knowledge-based organizations in discontinuous contexts.

scholarly journals EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE IN CONSTRUCTION OF PASSIVE HOUSING, KNOWLEDGE MODELS IN LITHUANIA / IŠREIKŠTINĖS IR NEIŠREIKŠTINĖS ŽINIOS PASYVIŲJŲ NAMŲ STATYBOJE, ŽINIŲ MODELIAI PASAULYJE IR LIETUVOJE

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Jevgenija Rutė
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Building Maintenance

Optimization of building maintenance expenditure becomes really an urgent issue in Lithuania. People prefer a warmer housing and show interest in recent decisions of engineering systems. They are looking for the best decision of heating costs optimization to price down heating costs not 10-20%, but a number of times. The results of passive houses scientific research as well as models of passive housing are discussed in the article. They ascertain and compare features of passive housing construction in different countries which depends on climatic conditions. Most countries support traditional housing. Remarkable thermal resistance and cost efficient maintenance of passive housing may be reached through an integrated approach of using proper architectural, constructional and engineering resolution, as well as applying the most relevant material usage and elaborating and accumulating practical knowledge. Lithuania, as well as other countries in the world, reveals that the concept of tacit knowledge still lacks sufficient attention within the construction industry, despite the fact that proper understanding and management of this resource is of immense importance for the achievement of better organizational performance. As the initial step towards the management of tacit knowledge, this paper examines the factors affecting tacit knowledge generation and utilization in the construction industry.

scholarly journals Micro-business entrepreneurs and bricoleurs on their way towards sustainable practice – implications for learning processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Anette Oxenswärdh
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Team Leader ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Or Team ◽  
Sustainable Practice

The purpose of the study was to investigate how some micro-business entrepreneurs and bricoleurs experience their learning processes through workshops, especially with respect to sustainability issues. This qualitative and explorative study focuses on learning processes during the GreenBizz course, which are analysed on the basis of inquiries and observations of discussions among course participants and on documents describing the course design and assignments. It was found that entrepreneurs are aware and are familiar with sustainability issues but they have neither proper tools nor the knowhow for implementing sustainable changes in their businesses. To be successful, the learning process needs to sufficiently heterogeneous, should involve the transmission of tacit knowledge and provide opportunities for participants to learn about their motivations and should include both theoretical and practical elements. Participation in the course enables entrepreneurs to network with other entrepreneurs, give support and share knowledge about sustainable solutions in their businesses. The study shows that such courses not only must allow for a certain degree of flexibility but also require a course or team leader with a solid and practical knowledge in entrepreneurship and sustainability.

scholarly journals VODENJE V SLOVENSKI VOJSKI

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
MARJAN HORVAT
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Insight Into

V članku želimo predstaviti vodenje v Slovenski vojski v širšem in ožjem smislu ter nerešena vprašanja na različnih ravneh. Vodenje je proces in ne le dolžnost in tako bi ga morali tudi razumeti. Vodenje ne poteka le do določene ravni znotraj vojaške organizacije, temveč je pomemben proces pri delu z ljudmi. Rezultate in ugotovitve bomo lahko uporabili za lažje razumevanje vodenja in nedorečenosti tega pojava, na drugi strani pa za lažje razumevanje nujnosti zavedanja pomembnosti sodobnih izzivov vodenja. Prispevek omogoča bralcu celovit vpogled v vodenje v hierarhični organizaciji, kot je Slovenska vojska. Ključne besede: vodenje, vojaško vodenje, Slovenska vojska, poveljevanje. Abstract The purpose of the article is to present leadership in the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) both in a broader and narrower sense as well as to present the unresolved issues at various levels. Leadership is a process not just a duty and should therefore be perceived as such. It is not applied just up to a certain level within a military organization, but is a key process in working with people. The results and findings of this article can be used to facilitate the understanding of leadership and the obvious vagueness of this phenomenon, and on the other hand to enable a better comprehension of how important it is to realize the importance of contemporary leadership challenges. The article provides the reader with a comprehensive insight into leadership in a hierarchical organization such as the SAF. Key words: Leadership, military leadership, Slovenian Armed Forces, command.

Clinical Judgment, Tacit Knowledge, and Recognition in Psychiatric Diagnosis

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Michael Polanyi ◽  
Operational Approach ◽  
Opposing View ◽  
Tacit Dimension ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
Context Free

This chapter contrasts the recent emphasis on operationalism as the route to reliability in psychiatry with arguments for an ineliminable role for tacit knowledge. Although Michael Polanyi popularized the idea of tacit dimension, the chapter argues that two clues he offers as to its nature-that we know more than we can tell and that knowledge is an active comprehension of things known-are better interpreted through regress arguments set out by Ryle and Wittgenstein. Those arguments, however, suggest that tacit knowledge is not inexpressible but merely inexpressible in context-free terms. The chapter suggests instead that tacit knowledge is best understood to be context-dependent practical knowledge. So understood, the regress arguments suggest that the operational approach to psychiatric diagnosis can never free itself from a tacit dimension. Given that claim, then Parnas' opposing view of diagnosis can be seen as a way to embrace, rather than deny, the importance of tacit knowledge and skilled clinical judgment for psychiatry.

The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Religion

1998 ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Walter Van Herck
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Religious Person

Clarity concerning what kind of knowledge a religious person possesses is of the utmost importance. For one thing, J. Whittaker remarks that believers must have some knowledge that enables them to make the distinction between literal and non-literal descriptions of God. (1) In the believer's perception 'God is a rock', but not really a rock. God however really is love. Whittaker suggests that making this distinction requires knowledge that cannot be metaphysical or experiential, but a more basic form which he terms 'practical' knowledge. Without going into his discussion of the metaphysical and experiential view, I would like to elaborate on this notion of knowledge in three steps. Firstly, I want to consider a short passage in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (A 132-3 / B 171-2) on judgment. This passage points out that we necessarily know more than we can say or state. Secondly, Michael Polanyi's account of tacit knowledge will be introduced to see what 'religious tacit knowledge' could mean to be. Thirdly, analysis of a text from Meister Eckhart's Reden der Unterweisung will aim to show the relevance of this notion of practical (or tacit) knowledge in religious contexts.

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