A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory: A Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition and Behaviour

730 Pages·2021·6.567 MB·English

by  Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink

A CONFIGURATION APPROACH TO MINDSET
AGENCY THEORY
This book explains psychological, sociopolitical and organisational
change in multidisciplinary settings. It shows how advanced tech-
niquesofcontextualanalysiscanbeappliedtocomplexsituationsand
offers a new cybernetic agency paradigm based on living systems
theory. It models, diagnoses and analyses complex, real-world situ-
ationstoanticipatepatternsofbehaviour.
maurice yolles isaretiredProfessorinManagementSystemsat
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, and has a
specialism in social cybernetics. He also headed the Centre for the
CreationofCoherentChangeandKnowledge.
gerhard fink is a retired Professor of International Business at
ViennaUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,andex-directorofthe
ResearchInstituteforEuropeanAffairsandofdoctoralprogramsin
business.

A CONFIGURATION
APPROACH TO MINDSET
AGENCY THEORY
A Formative Trait Psychology with Affect, Cognition
and Behaviour
MAURICE YOLLES
LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity
GERHARD FINK
ViennaUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness
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subjects:lcsh:Personality–Socialaspects.|Agent(Philosophy)|Personalityandcognition.|
Affect(Psychology)|Cybernetics.|Organizationalchange–Psychologicalaspects.|
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Contents
ListofFigures pagevii
ListofTables x
Foreword xv
Introduction 1
part i cybernetic sociopsychology and agency 29
1 MindsetAgencyTheory–anUnderview 37
2 AnExerciseinConfiguration 68
3 MindscapesTheoryandBalancedPersonality 100
4 NormativePersonalities 134
5 UnderstandingFormativeTraitsandBehaviour 162
SummarisingNarrativeforPartI 188
part ii from cognition to affect 195
6 CognitionAgency 197
7 CognitionPersonality 233
8 AffectTypesandMindsetTypes 264
9 AffectandCognition 294
SummarisingNarrativeforPartII 322
part iii modelling identity types through agency 329
10 IdentityasaComponentofPersonality 335
v
vi Contents
11 ModellingIdentityTypes–theCaseofDonaldTrump 369
12 Agency,Personality,andMultipleIdentityTypes–the
CaseofTheresaMay 395
SummarisingNarrativeforPartIII 430
part iv formal possibilities in mindset
agency theory 433
13 IntroductiontoPsychohistoryandFormalism 435
14 IllustratingPsychohistory 470
SummarisingNarrativeforPartIV 501
part v conclusion 505
15 Overview 507
AppendixA InventoryforCognitionAgency 530
AppendixB EmotionRegulation 544
Notes 547
Glossary 563
References 635
Index 698
Figures
I.1 Natureofgeneraltheoryofagencywithreflexive page5
relationshipbetweensubstructureandsuperstructure
1.1 EvolutiontowardsMindsetAgencyTheory 43
1.2 Values,interestsandbehaviourofapersonality 53
1.3 Viablesystemsmodeloftheorganisation 53
1.4 Distinctionbetweenthesystemschemasandtheir 58
orientationsinthestrategicagencyindicativeofapersonality
system.
2.1 AgencyTheoryschemaforanautonomousagency 76
2.2 LivingdynamicnatureofAT 79
2.3 TheS-MBTIaspectofagentictraitpsychologyasasemantic 92
streamofpersonalitytemperament
3.1 Interactiveopportunitiesforintegrateddevelopmentof 112
personalitydomainofbehaviouralinterests
3.2 Illustrationofpersonalitytemperamenttraitspacefor 119
a‘personalpolitical’spaceshowingtraitenantypes,with
socialenantypesshowninbrackets
3.3 AnindicationofBoje’srepresentationoftheMindscape 131
TypeSpaceusingKnowledgeCybernetictraitsandBoje
enantypesandshowingfourstableMindscapemeta-typesas
depictedbyBoje(2004)
3.4 RepresentationofMindscapeTraitsasasociocognitive 132
autonomousattributewithintheATmodelindicatingthe
domainenantypes
4.1 GenericmodelofacollectiveagencydrawingonHatchand 140
Cunliffe(2006)andNonakaandTakeuchi(1995),also
showingtheoperativesystemsofaconnectedagency
4.2 Normativepersonalityasacognitivesystemwithfigurative 143
andoperativeintelligences,seatedinthenoumenaldomain
oftheorganisationalagency
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viii ListofFigures
4.3 CulturalAgencyTheory(CAT)modelinvolvingfive 148
sociocognitivetraitsconnectingpersonalitywithitssocial
andculturalsystems
5.1 Cycleofagencychange 181
6.1 Distributionofmodesofpersonalitymeta-typesina 220
three-dimensionalpersonalitytraitspace,withsociocultural
traitsalsoindicated
7.1 CoreconceptofaCognitiveLivingSystem 234
7.2 GenericmodelforaLivingSystemAgency 235
7.3 MindsetPersonalitySpaceshowingeightMindsettypes, 252
wherecongruenciesmayoccurbetweenthemthatderive
fromtraitenantiomerbalances
8.1 TheAffectPersonalitySystem 275
8.2 AffectAgencySpacedisplayingMindsettypes 290
9.1 RepresentationofGross’(1998)ModelofEmotion 302
Management
9.2 Cognitionagency–GenericCognitionAgencymodel 303
9.3 TheAffectiveAgency 305
9.4 Interactionbetweencognitionandaffectpersonalitiesofthe 308
agency
9.5 Potentialforpoliticalempowermentinteractivelyrelating 312
culturalstability,culturalcompliance,andemotionalclimate
10.1 BasicPersonalityModelusingCulturalAgency 357
Theory(CAT)
10.2 ACATviewofIdentityTheoryformulatedasaLiving 361
System,withstrategicidentitiesandcontextualculturaland
socialidentities
12.1 CulturalAgencyModelwithembeddedpersonalityand 400
‘processintelligence’barsindicatingpossiblepathologies/
filters
12.2 AviewofDITformulatedasaLivingSystem,with 401
psychologicalidentities(asstrategicimperativesfor
behaviour)andcontextualsocioculturalidentities
12.3 PersonalityMindsetSpaceshowingeightExtremalMindset 407
types,andwhentwobecomeconjoint,ahybridMindsettype
emerges,indicatedby∩
13.1 Pluralagencyasalivingpsychohistoricalinquirysystem 436
13.2 AgencyLifeworldMeta-systemrelevanttosociohistorical 439
inquiryandnarrativetakentobecommunicationbehaviour