Cognitive attunement in the face of organizational plasticity

What is it about?

When organizations make efforts to adapt to change, strong pressures come to employees. Using an advanced computational simulation technique, this study shows that employees cope with change-related pressures better by adopting either a "concentration" or a "differentiation" cognitive strategy. In the first case, they stick to those tasks that they have been assigned to. In the second case, they move rapidly to perform only tasks that they know can be solved rapidly. HRM has the key function to steer employees (and the organization) towards the first or the second strategy, depending on how abrupt the change appears to be.

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