Management and Organizational Studies 3384A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tacit Knowledge, Job Performance, Job Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3384A/B
• Professor: Linda Eligh

Document Summary

You have the necessary skills to manage. Abilities: enduring general traits or characteristics on which people differ and which they bring to a work situation. Skill: an individual"s degree of proficiency or competency on a given task, which develops through performing the task. Aptitude: a specific, narrow ability or skill that may be used to predict job performance. Cognitive ability tests: assess intelligence, intellectual ability or general mental ability (gma/gca) Gma/gca thought to promote effective learning, efficient and accurate problem solving and clear communication. How easily people can be trained to perform job tasks. How well they can adjust and solve problems on the job. Cognitive ability tests: tests that include three dimensions: verbal, comprehension, quantitative ability and reasoning ability. Verbal comprehension: refers to a person"s capacity to understand and use written. Practical intelligence: the ability to apply ideas in (cid:498)real world(cid:499) contexts and spoken*** Tacit knowledge: derived from experience when learning is not the primary objective.