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Definition

Tacit knowledge is The knowledge wholly embodied in the individual and is rooted in practice, experience, intuition and individual skills that is difficult or even impossible to recall, articulate and thus to transfer. Source: [[]]

Tacit knowledge is Template:Tacit knowledge 3 Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations

Source: Guide on nuclear knowledge management

Summary

Description

The third type of knowledge, tacit knowledge, is the most difficult to recall and, thus, to transfer. Tacit knowledge includes knowledge about topics such as how to ride a bicycle or how to talk. These examples describe knowledge everybody just has. However, every individual possesses a lot of tacit knowledge. Employees, for example, tacitly know how they persuade other people, how to behave in different situations, or how to organize a meeting. Such knowledge cannot be completely explained, since it is wholly embodied in the individual, rooted in practice and experience, expressed through skillful execution, and transmitted by apprenticeship and training through watching and doing forms of learning [5]. Tacit knowledge can be observed; however, it is doubtful that all of this knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge. This fact is why it is said, “We know more than we know that we know.”

Source:Knowledge Management for Nuclear Industry Operating Organizations

Description

The third type of knowledge, tacit knowledge, is generally regarded as that which is difficult to recall, and virtually impossible to articulate and record. All humans possess tacit knowledge and they are only aware of it when they apply it. So-called ‘common sense’ may be regarded by some as a form of tacit knowledge and its technical content may be more limited than that of implicit knowledge (for example, not recordable experience in the head of a WM facility operator).

Source: Knowledge management for radioactive waste management organisations

Description

The third type of knowledge, tacit knowledge, is the most difficult to recall and to articulate, and thus to transfer. Tacit knowledge cannot be completely explained, since it is wholly embodied in the individual, rooted in practice and experience, expressed through skilful execution, and transmitted through apprenticeship and training by watching and doing.

Tacit knowledge can be observed; however, it is doubtful that all of this knowledge can be converted into explicit knowledge. Thus, the saying developed, “We know more than we realize we know.” Tacit knowledge includes skills, experience, insight, intuition and judgment. It is the ‘know-how’ accumulated in an individual’s mind.

Source: Comparative Analysis of Methods and Tools for Nuclear Knowledge Preservation

Description

Tacit knowledge is a very complex form of knowledge that shapes and is shaped by practices, experience, and individual skills — all vital elements that a person uses as inputs for decisions and for performing day-to-day work. This mode of knowledge is also known as ‘implicit’, ‘procedural’ and even ‘soft.’ A distinction is sometimes made between the tacit and implicit modes, the latter term referring to knowledge which can be written down but which has not yet been written down. For convenience this report will use the generally more common term ‘tacit’ to cover all forms of knowledge that is derived from experience and embedded in practices and procedures. In this report great emphasis will be placed on knowledge-sharing. It should not be forgotten that successful knowledge sharing is itself a form of tacit knowledge (for example at international gatherings of nuclear experts).

Source: National approaches and strategies for Nuclear Knowledge Management

Description

Tacit knowledge has been called ‘what we know but don’t know we know’. It is the most difficult type of knowledge to capture and, thus, to transfer. Tacit knowledge is often described as what’s in our heads. For example, an employee at an NPP who can predict a problem with a pump simply by listing to it operate or an employee who can identify corrosion problems in a pipe by taping with a wrench and listing to the sound. When asked to document their knowledge, they find it difficult to write it down. This tacit knowledge is typically developed over time through a combination of doing and lessons learned.

Source: Guide on nuclear knowledge management

Description

Tacit knowledge has been called ‘what we know but don’t know we know’. It is the most difficult type of knowledge to recall and, thus, to transfer. Tacit knowledge includes knowledge about topics such as how to ride a bicycle or how to talk. These examples describe knowledge everybody just has. However, every individual possesses a lot of tacit knowledge. Employees, for example, tacitly know how they persuade other people, how to behave in different situations, or how to organize a meeting. Such knowledge cannot be completely explained, since it is wholly embodied in the individual, rooted in practice and experience, expressed through skillful execution, and transmitted by apprenticeship and training through watching and doing forms of learning.

Sometimes tacit knowledge is used as alternative terminology for implicit knowledge; however, technically, the two identify different categories of knowledge.

Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations

Description

Tacit knowledge is experiential knowledge or ‘know how’ in the minds of individuals that typically cannot easily be easily expressed, captured or transferred. An example of tacit knowledge would be the know-how of an experienced maintenance engineer that allows him/her to arrive at a rapid and accurate diagnosis of problems with complex plant equipment such as a turbine.

Source: Impact of Knowledge Management Practices on NPP Organizational Performance – Results of Global Survey

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