Table of Contents

3.
3.1
3.2
3.2.1  Tacit knowledge typically is acquired without environmental support
3.2.2  Tacit knowledge is procedural
3.2.3  Tacit knowledge is practically useful
3.2.4  Tacit knowledge involves coherent relations among its features

3.3
3.3.1  Tacit knowledge is not synonymous with job knowledge
3.3.2  Tacit knowledge is not a proxy for general cognition
3.3.3  Tacit knowledge is not sufficient for effective performance

3.4
3.4.1  Identifying and measuring tacit knowledge

4.
4.1
4.1.1  Critical-incident technique
4.1.2  Simulations
4.1.3  Tacit-knowledge approach

4.2
4.3
4.3.1  Knowledge identification
4.3.2  Item selection
4.3.3  Instrument construction
4.3.4  Summary

4.4Establishing the validity of tacit-knowledge inventories
4.4.1  The content aspect
4.4.2  The substantive aspect
4.4.3  The structural aspect
4.4.4  The generalizability aspect
4.4.5  The external aspect
4.4.6  The consequential aspect

4.5