TESTING THE THEORY OF GOOD THINKING AND DECIDING IN ORGANIZA-TIONAL SETTING: MANY BENEFITS OF LEADER’S ACTIVELY OPEN-MINDED THINKING

• Authors: Erceg Nikola , Galić Zvonimir , Buljan Šiber Anđela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The aim of this work was to test the theory of good thinking and deciding in organizational context by examining the relationships between leaders’ Actively Open-Minded Thinking (AOT) and different employee level outcomes. Across two studies in which we surveyed managers and their subordinates, we have shown that manager’s AOT positively correlated with subordinate-rated decision-making quality and intellectual humility of their superiors, as well as with subordinates’ ratings of their teams’ psychological safety and their own job satisfaction and feeling of organizational support. We conclude that AOT is the disposition that predisposes some managers to patterns of thinking and behaviour that are observable and highly valued by their subordinates, resulting in a range of beneficial outcomes for employees, and that it might be worthwhile to investigate how we can teach managers to think in more actively open-minded way.

Keywords

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OPEN-MINDED THINKING; DECISION-MAKING; INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY; LEADERSHIP

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 230 - 245

Contributors

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Erceg Nikola

• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9056-4592

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Galić Zvonimir

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5710-0975

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Buljan Šiber Anđela

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2023.03.877