Knowledge Management

Difference Between Teaching and Learning

A fuller appreciation of the difference between explicit and tacit knowledge is key to understanding the role of managers and their education. Unlike blue-collar skills, which are generally predetermined, repetitive, mechanical, and codified in manuals, administrative decision making is a competence borne out of a variable and difficult-to-predict macroenvironment alongside the interaction of numerous interrelated institution- specific factors. Blue-collar skills are predicated on available explicit knowledge; white-collar skills are predicted mainly on the less-than-visible tacit experience. Explicit knowledge can be taught while tacit knowledge is best learned. The distinction is palpable. Teaching ...