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Essay About Tacit Knowledge

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Managing the knowledge that belongs to organizations is a very important aspect of organization’s success. Knowledge, tacit and explicit, are considered as a critical organizational resources. However, one of the most difficult tasks in knowledge management is to distribute knowledge to the right people, or make the knowledge available at the point where it needed. For a university, tacit knowledge is vital to the society because it the most important source of new knowledge, in the form of discoveries and innovations. It is the result of creative minds applying their tacit knowledge to overcome certain condition that need solutions. Explicit knowledge performs important purposes in a university. It encodes past learning in artifacts …show more content…

However, one of the most difficult tasks in knowledge management is to distribute knowledge to the right people, or make the knowledge available at the point where it needed. It is relatively difficult by the organization members to share it optimally and appropriately, especially tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge is easier to share than tacit one, since tacit knowledge form is usually abstract, because mostly it rest on the owner’s mind.
An academic society, such as a university as a form of organization, it is mostly same as common organizations. For a university, tacit knowledge is vital to the society because it the most important source of new knowledge, in the form of discoveries and innovations. It is the result of creative minds applying their tacit knowledge to overcome certain condition that need solutions. Explicit knowledge perform important purposes in a university. It encodes past learning in artifacts and rules and facilitates coordination between disparate activities and functions in university. Also, employing explicit knowledge indicates technical skill and procedural rationality, and in turn helps the society to present a self-image of competence, legitimacy, and accountability. Cultural knowledge described as “the beliefs it holds to be true based on experience, observation, and reflection about itself and its

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