An evaluation of the relationships between psychological climate and the styles of cognitive preference and manifest ideas
An evaluation of the relationships between psychological climate and the styles of cognitive preference and manifest ideas
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2017
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eng
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32 pages
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ABAC ODI Journal : Vision. Action. Outcome. 4, 2 (July-December 2017), 71-103
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This study challenges the assumption that the bipolar characteristics of adaption and
innovation associated with individual cognitive style preferences directly characterise the
content of manifest ideas and in turn the characteristics of organisational change. The
findings show psychological climate (in support of the organisational change process)
used in this study is significantly related to ideas with adaptive characteristics, but less so
to those with innovative characteristics. Furthermore, cognitive style is significantly
related to the characteristics of innovative ideas but much less so to adaptive ideas. These
two relationships show how the bi-polar characteristics of the Adaptive -Innovative
continuum fits with the two characteristics of the manifest ideas where the latter appears
as independent. However, while cognitive style and psychological climate have
significant relationships with both styles of ideas, climate dominates for ideas with
adaptive characteristics, and cognitive style dominates for ideas with innovative
characteristics. The lack of a relationship between psychological climate and cognitive
style suggests that psychological climate and cognitive style can be considered as
independent predictors of adaptive and innovative idea characteristics respectively.