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| Practical intelligence at work: relationship between aging and cognitive efficiency among managers in a bank environment | | Author(s) | Regina Colonia-Willner |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 45-57 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Managers ; Young adults [20-25] ; Middle aged ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A study was conducted to examine which better predicts performance among bank managers: tacit practical knowledge as assessed by the Tacit Knowledge Inventory for Managers (TKIM) or two psychometric measures of reasoning: the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices and the Verbal Reasoning sub-test of the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT). Two hundred US bank managers aged 24 to 59 years participated. Increased age was associated with lower performance in Raven's and the DAT, but less so in the TKIM; best performing older managers on average had high levels of tacit knowledge; although they scored lower on psychometric reasoning measures; TKIM predicted managerial skill; DAT and Raven's did not. The findings suggest that stabilisation of some aspects of intelligence may occur in older age. Implications of the findings for the study of practical intelligence, expertise, and compensatory abilities are discussed. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980708405 A |
| Classmark | DA: DF: T6: SD6: SE: 7T |
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