The effect of tacit knowledge in creative based performance

(An exploratory study of the opinions of a sample of medical and nursing staff in private hospitals in Karbala governorate)

A Thesis Submitted to

The Council of the Faculty of Administration and Economics / University of Karbala

As Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Master Degree in Business Management

By:

Wrood Neama Muosa

Supervise by  the professor

D. Faisal Alwan Al-Taie

The study aims to measure the level of impact of the tacit knowledge variable on creativity-based performance. Through the dimensions of the independent variable tacit knowledge (experience, skill, ability to think) and the dependent variable performance based on creativity in its dimensions (creativity, fluency, originality, adaptation) for a sample of medical and nursing staff in private hospitals. This study was applied in private hospitals (Al-Kafeel Specialist, Al-Abbas Al-Ahly, and Imam Zain Al-Abidin Al-Jarrahi) in the Holy Karbala Governorate. (278) respondents, and the researcher relied on the descriptive analysis method in collecting and analyzing information, and the main tool for collecting information was the questionnaire, and for the purpose of analysis, a number of statistical methods available in the two programs (SPSS.V.23) and (Amos.V.23) were used. ).

        The researcher has come to a number of conclusions, the most important of which is, as it appeared through analyzing the results of the presence of a significant effect of the independent variable (tacit knowledge) in the dependent variable (performance based on creativity). The dependent variable is performance based on creativity, and this indicates the need for the staff of private hospitals to adopt the study sample, tacit knowledge, as it contributes to attracting different ideas and developing the hospital and will reach creativity, through the adoption of innovations by hospitals because it opens up possibilities for new economic opportunities and innovations in the future that paved the way for continuous change.