Paper Title :Structured Cognition: How Assumed Organization Borders and Cognitive Capacity form Organizational Behavior

Author :Mustafa Emre Caglar

Article Citation :Mustafa Emre Caglar , (2017 ) " Structured Cognition: How Assumed Organization Borders and Cognitive Capacity form Organizational Behavior " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 28-35, Volume-3,Issue-10

Abstract : Despite the abundant study of organizational cognition concept, there remains an uncharted area which depicts; ‘How perception of different cognitive capacities might hierarchise in the organization?’ Upon this problematic, we decided to apply ‘Kohlbergs’ Moral Development Theory’ to organizational level and found 4 hierarchic cognitive level for organization members, which characterize on different justification modes. We show that the consideration styles and behaviour of organization members evolve while their cognitive capacities broaden and these shifts are consistently patterned. We also show that, by using their justification mode, we can forecast the identified organization members’ behavior under specified circumstances. For the prestudy we made interviews with 250 attendants and for the main research we worked with an other 250 (real time workers) of 8 corporate company and also generated an objective scale for verifying these results. Eventually, we obtained two different scales for industrial use. Index Terms- Organizational Cognition, Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory, Decision Making

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-3,Issue-10

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