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Estudos Interdisciplinares em Psicologia

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Abstract

NAKANO, Tatiana de Cássia; CAMPOS, Carolina Rosa; SILVA, Talita Fernanda da  and  PEREIRA, Elida Kalina Gomes. Styles of Thinking and Creating in organizational context: differences according to professional position?. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.2, pp. 171-193. ISSN 2236-6407.

This study aimed to identify the style of thinking and creating in professionals a pharmaceutical distribution company, in order to verify the existence of different styles according to gender, educational level and position held. Forty professionals, including 30 women and 10 men, aged 17 years and 35 years (M=24.5, SD=5.4), with high school education (n=14) and college (n=26) were divided into two groups, the first being formed by professionals working in the tax and accounting (n=20), and another group of professionals who hold positions in the sales (n=20). They answered the scale Styles of Thinking and Creating individually during office hours. The results showed that only the logical-objective style proved to be influenced by the area of performance (F=4.745; p≤0.037), with all others variables showed no significant influences. In the present study, gender and educational level did not influence the styles of thinking and creating of the participants as well as all other interactions. It was also found that most of the sample appears as the predominant style logical-objective, regardless of sex (62.0% of women and 72.7% of men were classified in this style), level of education (with 57 1% of professionals with high school and 69.2% with college) and in relation to the field (60.0% of the participants in the accounting/tax filing this predominant style and 70.0% of professionals in sales).

Keywords : style; creativity; gender; education; organizational.

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