Thursday, February 12, 2015

Corporate Cognitive Dissonance

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A major corporation intentionally on two twin sites takes a key which on site employees are supposed to document and report as missing.

Two officers on the larger site are warned in advance a day earlier by the contracted company manager, that does not work for the corporation, that this could occur on site.

The two officers are also warned via a fellow contracted company officer, on the smaller site, that this took place on the smaller site the same day of the warning from the manager.

The problem in regard to the key is found on the larger site by the writer of this post working with his associate and is documented accordingly.

The corporation's tactics are not appreciated by the officers involved at the main site, or by other officers when alerted.

If more professionalism is needed by officers, then what is required for a professional career should be brought into the industry in recruitment and hiring process by the corporation and contracted company.

Therefore

It is cognitive dissonance not do so a significant amount of time and then complain when industry results are mixed...

Philosopher George A. Graham explains cognitive dissonance as the mental discomfort that arises from conflicting beliefs or attitudes held simultaneously, meaning at the very same time. The concept came from a book from Leon Festinger in 1957. Graham (1996: 127).

Blackburn mentions that Festinger was an American psychologist, the book was 'Theory of Cognitive Dissonance'. Festinger suggested that cognitive dissonance had 'motivational characteristics' meaning that when it occurs the amount of dissonance depends on the relative intensities with the dissonant elements. Graham (1996: 127).

It may take place in two major areas, as in self-deception and weakness of the will. Graham (1996: 127). A key point raised by Graham is that one may become weak-willed when dissonance arises from the expected and reasonably understood results and consequences of doing what is right. Graham (1996: 128).

Blackburn writes that Festinger's research and concepts led to ideas that a person's known wrong concepts may lead to reformation and strategies of belief that are surprising. Blackburn (1996: 67).

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

GRAHAM A, GEORGE (1996) ‘Cognitive Dissonance’, in Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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