Assessing rational and intuitive styles: a human information processing metaphor
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This article has four distinct but related purposes. First, we describe the research setting for assessing human information processing style in terms of the rational-intuitive complementarity. We highlight earlier management study that directly deals with this dimension. Then we review popular instruments for assessing style in rational-intuitive terms. Second, we outline a conceptual model that elaborates the rational-intuitive styles of human information processing into three modes each. There are innovative management studies, and Eastern and Western philosophical bases for this model. We use this background to help synthesize three lines of neurophysiological research to formulate a six-mode human information processing (HIP) metaphor. Third, we use the HIP metaphor to develop an HIP survey with a scale for each mode. This section describes how conceptual definitions are derived from the model with guidance from rational-intuitive term pairs and the survey item pool. Finally, we describe the statistical analysis of the reliability and validity of the six scales for the HIP survey. We use a criterion-based factor analytic approach for isolating scale items. Then, the HIP metaphor is used to predict associations among the scales in our study. We use a modified form of the multitrait-multimethod approach to test our predictions. Finally, this section summarizes the results of the predicted relationships among the variables of the self-assessment tools used in this study. The study helps bring the rational-intuitive assessment of human information processing into the mainstream of management research. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 1990
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Linking changes in revealed causal maps and environmental change: an empirical study
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This article explores the cognitive maps of the dominant coalition of one firm over time. It begins with an overview of the cognitive mapping literature and discusses 'revealed cognitive maps' as one strategy for measuring managerial cognitive structures. Next, the revealed cognitive maps from one company over a 20-year period are analysed for their fit with the company's environmental context. The data suggest that the fit between cognitive structures and the environment was less than perfect, and that decision-makers both under-identified and over-identified certain environmental factors. These and other data are discussed within the context of a cognitive approach to managerial thinking. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 1989
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