1985
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.49.2.436
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Abstract: We carried out three experiments to examine the role of tacit knowledge (knowledge that usually is not openly expressed or taught) in intellectual competence in real-world pursuits. In Experiment 1, subjects were divided into three groups, whose 187 members differed in amounts of experience and formal training in academic psychology. Differences in tacit knowledge useful for managing oneself, others, and one's career were related to criterion measures of performance for both academic psychologists and psycholo… Show more

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“…Measuring PMs' PI We use the critical incidents approach to assess PI in software project managers (Wagner and Sternberg 1985, Joseph et al 2010). Specifically, we gathered critical incident scenarios from nine project management experts at the research site.…”
Section: Methodology Research Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Measuring PMs' PI We use the critical incidents approach to assess PI in software project managers (Wagner and Sternberg 1985, Joseph et al 2010). Specifically, we gathered critical incident scenarios from nine project management experts at the research site.…”
Section: Methodology Research Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since PI is contextual, it is difficult to teach in a classroom; more importantly, it is "not acquired automatically with each passing year" (Wagner and Sternberg 1985, p. 450). Wagner and Sternberg (1985), we adapt the taxonomy of PI for IT professionals (Joseph et al 2010) to that for PMs leading software offshore projects and describe PMs' PI in terms of the ability to manage (i) tasks, i.e., knowing how to accomplish the particular project task at hand; (ii) career, i.e., knowing how to enhance one's performance as well as reputation by considering long-term career goals; (iii) self, i.e., improving one's productivity on a day-to-day basis; and (iv) others, i.e., interacting with the various project stakeholders and using social capital Sternberg 1985, Joseph et al 2010 (Lacity and Willcocks 2001, Hirschheim et al 2002, Aron and Singh 2005.…”
Section: An Information Processing Perspective Of Software Offshore Omentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Wagner & Sternberg, 1985) or heuristic decision making (Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier, 2011). Practical intelligence, however, is distinct from implicit trait policies as it refers to individuals' tendencies in dealing with context-specific problems.…”
Section: Situational Judgment Tests As Measures Of Context-independenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most commonly, SJTs consist of descriptions of difficult interpersonal situations, with each followed by a series of response options describing potential behavioral responses to the situations that differ in effectiveness (Wagner & Sternberg, 1985).…”
Section: Assessment Of Knowledge About Prosocial Behaviormentioning
confidence: 99%