Cognitive Styles Cools' (2010) Review Essay

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Whereas cognitive dissimilarity may breed conflict. In short, Cools' (2010) collections of research results indicates that cognitive styles influence general aspects of one's life and recognizing one's cognitive style will invariably help the employee and employer.

It seems to me, however, that whilst there may be much truth in the matter, the concept of cognitive styles may also be overrated in (a) that many other elements (such as socio-emotional factors and task-related aspects in terms of social relationships) may intrude, and b. there are diverse theories of cognitive styles with some conflicting with others. Research is inconsistent and inconclusive in various areas, aside from the fact that there is a lack of qualitative and longitudinal research, and a lack of contextualization.

Furthermore, it seems to me that people are too diverse and too 'plastic' for them to be arbitrarily molded in one specific category.

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The concept of cognitive styles may have some benefit in that it may direct a person to a certain field of employment and show him way of connecting with others but it may prove dangerous when individuals (employee or employer alike -- and particularly the latter) rely uncritically on the system and pigeon-hole people according to categories. It reminds me of Orwell's 1994 or Skinner's Walden Two where alleged-utopias turn out to be dystopias. Any system that pigeonholes or categorizes individuals is suspicious to me since individuals, by virtue of differences in experience, background, and biological aspects and countless other variables ontologically escape description. Cognitive styles may have some merit but my conclusion is that they should be used with caution.

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Cools, E. (2010). Taking a styles perspective to understand organizational behavior: a four decades view. Vlerick….....

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