Structural model of enterprise managers' tacit knowledge and personality traits

Tacit knowledge is considered an effective new structure to predict an individual’s job performance. We administered the Tacit Knowledge Inventory for Managers to 127 Chinese enterprise managers; of these participants, 121 also completed the NEO-Five-Factor Inventory measure of Big Five personality traits. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the structure of tacit knowledge, in which we posited a 2-factor model of context substructure. Structural equation modeling path analysis demonstrated that neuroticism was a positive predictor of total and local tacit knowledge scores; that conscientiousness was a positive predictor of total, local, and global tacit knowledge scores; and that agreeableness was a positive predictor of total and local tacit knowledge scores.