Role of the Congnitive Task in Decision Making Performance

Abstract

In organizations are being carried out extensive work processes, activities which vary according to whether why they are made for, but also according to the direct results obtained. One can speak thus, on the one hand, about executive processes, in which human resource acts on and / or uses material, financial and information resources in order to achieve targets and, on the other hand, about managerial processes, in which, a part of human resources (managers: top managers, middle managers, etc..) act on the other party, represented by employees, in order to attract the organization in accomplishing its objectives. În the latest years, that has become the main preoccupation of several researchers: Cohen (1981), Barwise and Perry (1983), Klein et al. (1993) etc.. This research is wanted to highlight types of schemas, which are activated by managerial decision: cognitive or emotional schemas. The study is realized on 160 managers from the railway domain, developing activities at state and private institutions. The working methodology is represented by decisional cognitive targets, which the participants must analyze and solve, adopting a solving strategy and a questionnaire to identify the type of the cognitive schema. We have also underline the fact that there are individual targets, not group targets. The results put into evidence the cognitive schemas accessing, together with an existing saturation of emotional decisional schemas.

Keywords: organization, cognitive task, performance, decision, management