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Cognitive Failures At Work, Mindfulness, And The Big Five, Karen Klockner, Richard Hicks
Cognitive Failures At Work, Mindfulness, And The Big Five, Karen Klockner, Richard Hicks
Richard Hicks
Cognitive failures at work (or errors in the workplace including blunders and memory lapses), can lead to considerable personal and organisational damage, even damage well beyond national borders in some organisations. Workplace errors may have a personality base; and mindfulness (or mindlessness) also appears to be related to workplace errors generally. Given the importance and cost of errors in the workplace it is of concern that no previous research appears to have addressed the relationships between cognitive failures at work, personality and mindfulness together. We aimed to address this gap. We administered the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, the Mindful Attention Awareness …