The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis

This paper presents an hypothesis for future testing to examine the relationship between user cognitive style and user satisfaction with Decision Support Systems (DSS). Preliminary research, in which subjects with different cognitive styles were found to have up to 17% difference in levels of satisf...

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Main Author: Williams, Robert
Format: Conference Paper
Published: McGraw Hill 1999
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12799
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description This paper presents an hypothesis for future testing to examine the relationship between user cognitive style and user satisfaction with Decision Support Systems (DSS). Preliminary research, in which subjects with different cognitive styles were found to have up to 17% difference in levels of satisfaction with a DSS, suggests the theoretical basis for the hypothesis. The DSS facilitated some users’ processes of consciousness, or ways of selecting and forming views of the world, more than others. Some types therefore experienced more satisfaction with the system because the computerised task engaged their most preferred cognitive processes, while other types were forced into their least preferred processes. DSS have certain common characteristic tasks, and it is hypothesised that such tasks will always lead to certain cognitive types experiencing higher satisfaction.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-127992017-01-30T11:32:53Z The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis Williams, Robert MBTI user satisfaction organisational decision making cognitive style task/technology fit DSS This paper presents an hypothesis for future testing to examine the relationship between user cognitive style and user satisfaction with Decision Support Systems (DSS). Preliminary research, in which subjects with different cognitive styles were found to have up to 17% difference in levels of satisfaction with a DSS, suggests the theoretical basis for the hypothesis. The DSS facilitated some users’ processes of consciousness, or ways of selecting and forming views of the world, more than others. Some types therefore experienced more satisfaction with the system because the computerised task engaged their most preferred cognitive processes, while other types were forced into their least preferred processes. DSS have certain common characteristic tasks, and it is hypothesised that such tasks will always lead to certain cognitive types experiencing higher satisfaction. 1999 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12799 McGraw Hill fulltext
spellingShingle MBTI
user satisfaction
organisational decision making
cognitive style
task/technology fit
DSS
Williams, Robert
The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title_full The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title_fullStr The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title_full_unstemmed The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title_short The cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: An hypothesis
title_sort cognitive styles of satisfied decision support systems users: an hypothesis
topic MBTI
user satisfaction
organisational decision making
cognitive style
task/technology fit
DSS
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12799