Theory and Application of Tacit Knowledge Transfer

Jia-Cheng Chang^1,2,3, Ding-Bang Luh², Shiann-Far Kung², Akira Ueda³

¹Creative Product Design, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan City, Chinese Taipei.
²Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Chinese Taipei.
³Design Culture Unit, Design Science Department, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2014.519193                

Abstract

Tacit knowledge, regarding its essence, is a kind of “understanding”, comprehension, and the process of grasping and re-organizing experiences. Moreover, such ability can be controlled at will. However, spiritual understanding enables people to display the function of dominance and determination of knowledge. Therefore, this study first proposed the tacit knowledge transfer mode; there are two major strategies for the Tacit Knowledge Transfer Method (TKTM): depict the essence instead of the appearance and understand spiritually. In other words, it allows learners to represent the knowledge learned and transfer it into body memory in order to apply it to similar situations through deduction and inference. This study aims to integrate Tacit Knowledge Transfer Method (TKTM) into sketch instruction. The first phase was “knowledge accumulation”: we used “Mu” way to accumulate drawing knowledge. The phase two was “knowledge transfer”: we used “Lin” way to transfer drawing knowledge. In the process, the students in Department of Design are divided into the experimental group and the controlled group for comparisons. Seven design experts evaluate the teaching effectiveness on the two groups (Mixed and anonymous), aiming at students’ learning achievement. The experiment concludes two main results: firstly, based on the expert evaluation scores, Tacit Knowledge Transfer Method (TKTM) proves the significant effect of Tacit Knowledge Transfer Method (TKTM) on Perspective Accuracy, Line Stability, and Form Expressivity of freehand sketch; secondly, from the experiment process and survey results, it was evident that Tacit Knowledge Transfer Method (TKTM) has direct correlation with participants’ assertiveness. If there is a conflict between norm knowledge the effectiveness of transfer will be reduced significantly.

Keywords

Component, Formatting, Style, Styling

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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