Premium
Schema‐Based Sensemaking of the Decision to Participate and its Effects on Job Performance
Author(s) -
Morandin Gabriele,
Bergami Massimo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/emre.12019
Subject(s) - sensemaking , laddering , schema (genetic algorithms) , psychology , cognition , situated cognition , knowledge management , perspective (graphical) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , computer science , social psychology , artificial intelligence , business , information retrieval , finance , neuroscience
This paper describes the development and testing of an iterative framework, based on a situated cognition perspective, for uncovering cognitive schemas that people enact in sensemaking processes. The research investigated the cognitive schemas of 167 employees participating in a call center through the elicitation of interpretations and the justifications for those interpretations. Data were analyzed by using a laddering methodology based on means‐end analysis in order to disclose declarative (i.e., concepts) and procedural (i.e., relations between concepts) knowledge. A cognitive cause map and its main indexes were derived, following principles from social network analysis. The results demonstrate how specific contents of cognitive schemas that arise during sensemaking (e.g., fulfillment ) are related to job performance. In addition, the schema connecting skills development to improving career prospects and to personal growth was significant, revealing the prominent influence exerted by procedural knowledge in enacting sensemaking and motivating greater performance.