Cognitive Styles of Entrepreneurs, Knowledge Workers & Managers:Adaptive or Innovative?

This study compares entrepreneurs, knowledge workers and managers on cognitive styles, critical in managing the workplace. The three basic cognitive styles of functioning of people in organization namely originality, efficiency and rule/group conformity either make the organization innovative or tilt it towards being adaptive. A comparison across groups showed statistically significant differences suggesting that the style difference is uniquely affecting the work environment. The groups of entrepreneurs, lawyers and psychologists barely crossed the western standard to be called innovative. The correspondence analysis established relatively independent positioning of originality, efficiency and rule/group conformity factors while denominating professors, teachers, entrepreneurs, pilots, computer professionals as relatively more close to originality factor than the other groups.