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