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Cognition in Organizations

Year: 2007

Type: review

Abstract: This article reviews major developments from 2000 to early 2007 in the psychological analysis of cognition in organizations. Our review, the first in this series to survey cognitive theory and research spanning the entire field of industrial and organizational psychology, considers theoretical, empirical, and methodological advances across 10 substantive domains of application. Two major traditions, the human factors and organizational traditions, have dominated cognitively oriented research in this field. Our central message is that the technological and human systems underpinning contemporary organizational forms are evolving in ways that demand greater cooperation among researchers across both traditions. Such cooperation is necessary in order to gain theoretical insights of sufficient depth and complexity to refine the explanation and prediction of behavior in organizations and derive psychologically sound solutions to the unprecedented information-processing burdens confronting the twenty-first century workforce.

Source: Annual Review of Psychology

DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093612

Authors: Gerard P. Hodgkinson, Mark P. Healey

Institution: University of Leeds

Language: English

Topic: Human-Automation Interaction and Safety

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Institute of Management Research, College of Business Administration Seoul National University, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council

Award: G8090255425