Cognitive Styles and Management Behavior of Coal Enterprise Managers

The purpose of the research is to explore the relationship between the cognitive styles and management behaviors of coal enterprise managers. The paper uses a combination of subjective and objective methods of questionnaire survey and eye movement experiments to explore the cognitive style of coal enterprise managers from three perspectives, namely, cognitive effects, decision preferences, and presentation preferences. The results of the research show that field-independent managers tend to rely on internal environmental factors during making management decisions, and field-dependent managers tend to rely on the external environment. In terms of cognitive efficiency, the cognitive efficiency of field-independent manager is better than that of field-dependent ones and can identify safety hazards faster. In terms of presentation methods, field-independent managers tend to choose static methods, and field-dependent managers tend to choose dynamic methods.