The six independent studies,presented by the author, aimed at checking whether meta-rules, isolated with the aid of factor analysis and interpreted as styles of solving problems, are invariant. The following styles turned out to be stable: Active approach to Problems, Transgression, Rationalism, Objectivism, Intuition, Flexibility, Conservatism, and Concentration on Problems. It was suggested that the above styles of solving problems could be interpreted as higher-order mental components of solving ill-defined problems.
Recent empirical attempts to identify the semantic spaces of various creative productions like music, movies, and paintings are reported. Comparison of the elucidated spaces, by means of factor analysis, shows a great deal of invariance. This suggests, in accordance with the cognitive psychology theories, that these spaces could be interpreted as mental categories that serve people to recognize, to understand, and to interpret creative productions. .
The senior author model of the Style of Creative Behavior (SCB) together with his models of the Styles of the Problem Solving (SPS) and the model of Analogy thinking (AT), Kolanczyk's model of Intuition-Rationality (I-R) , and Nosal-Jung model of the Types of the Mind (TM) were used to explain effective management under systems transformation in Poland. The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and the discriminant analysis were used to test differences between two groups of subjects: efficient (N=30) and less efficient managers. The discriminant analysis carried out for 17 variables taken from the above models gave 89% of correct classifications (canonical correlation is equal 0,798). The highest discriminate weights in the equation were: 'Global-subjective' type of the mind (TM), 'Rationality' (I-R), 'Strong ego' (SCB), and 'Transgression' and 'Intuition' (SPS). The article ends with the discussion of personality and cognitive determinants of the success of effective management under systems transformation in Poland.
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