M J Kirton
Biographic Data
| ID | 338529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Kirton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirton |
| SIGNATURE | KIRTON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Single Session of a Digital Health Tool-Delivered Exercise Intervention May Provide Immediate Relief from Pelvic Pain in Women with Endometriosis: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study
Our study suggests that a single bout of a 'self-managed' VR-delivered exercise may be as efficacious as a single session of 'supervised' telehealth-delivered exercise in providing immediate relief from pelvic pain associated with endometriosis
Adaption-Innovation
Adaption-Innovation is a timely and comprehensive text written for anyone who wants to know more about dealing with problem solving, thinking style, creativity and team dynamics. In an age when teams have become critical to successful problem solving, Adaption-Innovation (A-I) theory is a model in this field, which aims to increase collaboration and reduce conflict within groups. A-I Theory and associated inventory (KAI) have been extensively res…
A Psychometric Reexamination of Kolb'S Experiential Learning Cycle Construct: A Separation of Level, Style, and Process
The study examined Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory through a psychometric analysis and revision of Honey and Mumford's Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ) using a sample of 185 middle/senior managers in the UK and Eire. Kolb's theoretical two bipolar-dimension orthogonal structure emerges, although it is made up of pairs that are not Kolb's configurative opposites but ones suggested by other scholars. The authors' principal finding is that no …
Cognitive Style and Alcoholics: A Comment on Robertson, Et Al
Errors and ways of extending work with alcoholics as reported by Robertson, Fournet, Zelhart, and Estes in 1987 and 1988 are noted
Cognitive climate and organizations
It is argued that the identification of similarities in preferred ways of working and associated personality characteristics within occupational groups constitutes a ‘cognitive climate’ within the overall organizational climate. The empirical evidence for this hypothesis is reviewed, together with studies which examine the effects of inferred forces which act on the individual who finds him/herself in an ‘alien’ cognitive climate: selective recru…
Adaptors, Innovators, and Paradigm Consistency
562 subjects completed a test battery containing scales of Dogmatism, Inflexibility, Conservatism, and Intolerance of Ambiguity from which internal consistency coefficients were calculated. Adaption-Innovation theory suggests that (a) adaptors would be more concerned with consistency than innovators, (b) adaptors would be likely to choose and adhere to one of two specific strategies to help achieve high consistency, and (c) innovators would be mo…
Personal and Group Estimates of the Kirton Inventory Scores
63 subjects were asked to estimate personal scores and scores of others on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory after hearing a lecture on the theory. The close correlations between estimated and actual scores have useful implications as well as adding to the convergent validity of the inventory
Styles of Creativity: Test-Score Correlations between Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
A reading of the manual for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator left it unclear whether it measures, inter alia, level or style of creativity, whereas the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory specifically purports to measure style but not level. Comparison of both manuals and instruments led the authors to the view that there were significant correspondences between the two tests. The present paper reports the results of the use of both Indicator and…
Levels of Self-Actualization of Adaptors and Innovators
Unexpectedly both high adaptors and innovators have low self-actualization scores
The Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory: A Reply to Mulligan and Martin
Mulligan and Martin's criticism of the adaption-innovation theory and its measure (5 ) appears to be based on an unwarranted reading of the original material which sees implications where none exist. For example, the opposite of a penon who proliferates ideas is not, as they suggest, someone who is bereft of ideas; similarly, if some individuals infer that they prefer to deal with one problem at a time, this does not necessarily imply they are rt…
Adaptors and Innovators in Organizations
It is theoretically safe to expect that collective decision-making at the managerial level, in most organizations, will be adaptor-dominated to ensure, e.g., stability and continuity; however, the organizations themselves need not necessarily be adaptor-weighted, i.e., contain more adaptors than innovators. Specific hypotheses about particular subgroups within organizations are advanced, which predict variations in the proportions of adaptors and…
Have Adaptors and Innovators Equal Levels of Creativity
An earlier study posited contrasting styles of creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making on the level of a personality dimension (Kirton, 1976). Although it was possible to make a number of clear distinctions between adaptors and innovators, as those scoring at the extremes of the continuum were labelled, the theory explicitly denied that any differences should be found between these extreme scorers on level of creativity. The present stud…
Adaptors and Innovators in Culture Clash
Adaptors and Innovators and Superior-Subordinate Identification
It has been noted earlier (Kirton, 1976) that adaptors and innovators often possess naive and distorted views of each other. One such view, expressed by innovator senior managers in interviews, was that adaptors owe their success to agreeing with the boss. This study supports adaptors' denials that this is so and offers a more refined hypothesis
Characteristics of High Lie Scorers
Evidence accumulates that high Lie scorers include both those who could be described as knowing dissemblers and those who are naive but honest. Further evidence for the existence of the latter group is here presented
Relatedness of Married Couples' Scores on ‘Adorno’ Type Tests
Researchers have been surprised and nonplussed by finding unexpectedly weak relationships between dogmatism and personal attraction. The present study of 64 married couples finds significant correlations between the scores of spouses on the Dogmatism Scale and on four other closely related tests, implying a clear positive relationship between dogmatism and personal attraction
Adaptors and innovators: A description and measure.
Adaptors and Innovators in Organizations
It is theoretically safe to expect that collective decision-making at the managerial level, in most organizations, will be adaptor-dominated to ensure, e.g., stability and continuity; however, the organizations themselves need not necessarily be adaptor-weighted, i.e., contain more adaptors than innovators. Specific hypotheses about particular subgroups within organizations are advanced, which predict variations in the proportions of adaptors and…
Adaptors and innovators: A description and measure.
Adaptors and Innovators and Superior-Subordinate Identification
It has been noted earlier (Kirton, 1976) that adaptors and innovators often possess naive and distorted views of each other. One such view, expressed by innovator senior managers in interviews, was that adaptors owe their success to agreeing with the boss. This study supports adaptors' denials that this is so and offers a more refined hypothesis
Characteristics of High Lie Scorers
Evidence accumulates that high Lie scorers include both those who could be described as knowing dissemblers and those who are naive but honest. Further evidence for the existence of the latter group is here presented
Relatedness of Married Couples' Scores on ‘Adorno’ Type Tests
Researchers have been surprised and nonplussed by finding unexpectedly weak relationships between dogmatism and personal attraction. The present study of 64 married couples finds significant correlations between the scores of spouses on the Dogmatism Scale and on four other closely related tests, implying a clear positive relationship between dogmatism and personal attraction
Have Adaptors and Innovators Equal Levels of Creativity
An earlier study posited contrasting styles of creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making on the level of a personality dimension (Kirton, 1976). Although it was possible to make a number of clear distinctions between adaptors and innovators, as those scoring at the extremes of the continuum were labelled, the theory explicitly denied that any differences should be found between these extreme scorers on level of creativity. The present stud…
Adaptors and Innovators in Culture Clash
Levels of Self-Actualization of Adaptors and Innovators
Unexpectedly both high adaptors and innovators have low self-actualization scores
The Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory: A Reply to Mulligan and Martin
Mulligan and Martin's criticism of the adaption-innovation theory and its measure (5 ) appears to be based on an unwarranted reading of the original material which sees implications where none exist. For example, the opposite of a penon who proliferates ideas is not, as they suggest, someone who is bereft of ideas; similarly, if some individuals infer that they prefer to deal with one problem at a time, this does not necessarily imply they are rt…
Adaptors and Innovators in Organizations
It is theoretically safe to expect that collective decision-making at the managerial level, in most organizations, will be adaptor-dominated to ensure, e.g., stability and continuity; however, the organizations themselves need not necessarily be adaptor-weighted, i.e., contain more adaptors than innovators. Specific hypotheses about particular subgroups within organizations are advanced, which predict variations in the proportions of adaptors and…
Styles of Creativity: Test-Score Correlations between Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
A reading of the manual for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator left it unclear whether it measures, inter alia, level or style of creativity, whereas the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory specifically purports to measure style but not level. Comparison of both manuals and instruments led the authors to the view that there were significant correspondences between the two tests. The present paper reports the results of the use of both Indicator and…
Adaptors, Innovators, and Paradigm Consistency
562 subjects completed a test battery containing scales of Dogmatism, Inflexibility, Conservatism, and Intolerance of Ambiguity from which internal consistency coefficients were calculated. Adaption-Innovation theory suggests that (a) adaptors would be more concerned with consistency than innovators, (b) adaptors would be likely to choose and adhere to one of two specific strategies to help achieve high consistency, and (c) innovators would be mo…
Personal and Group Estimates of the Kirton Inventory Scores
63 subjects were asked to estimate personal scores and scores of others on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory after hearing a lecture on the theory. The close correlations between estimated and actual scores have useful implications as well as adding to the convergent validity of the inventory
Cognitive climate and organizations
It is argued that the identification of similarities in preferred ways of working and associated personality characteristics within occupational groups constitutes a ‘cognitive climate’ within the overall organizational climate. The empirical evidence for this hypothesis is reviewed, together with studies which examine the effects of inferred forces which act on the individual who finds him/herself in an ‘alien’ cognitive climate: selective recru…
Cognitive Style and Alcoholics: A Comment on Robertson, Et Al
Errors and ways of extending work with alcoholics as reported by Robertson, Fournet, Zelhart, and Estes in 1987 and 1988 are noted
A Psychometric Reexamination of Kolb'S Experiential Learning Cycle Construct: A Separation of Level, Style, and Process
The study examined Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory through a psychometric analysis and revision of Honey and Mumford's Learning Style Questionnaire (LSQ) using a sample of 185 middle/senior managers in the UK and Eire. Kolb's theoretical two bipolar-dimension orthogonal structure emerges, although it is made up of pairs that are not Kolb's configurative opposites but ones suggested by other scholars. The authors' principal finding is that no …
Adaption-Innovation
Adaption-Innovation is a timely and comprehensive text written for anyone who wants to know more about dealing with problem solving, thinking style, creativity and team dynamics. In an age when teams have become critical to successful problem solving, Adaption-Innovation (A-I) theory is a model in this field, which aims to increase collaboration and reduce conflict within groups. A-I Theory and associated inventory (KAI) have been extensively res…
A Single Session of a Digital Health Tool-Delivered Exercise Intervention May Provide Immediate Relief from Pelvic Pain in Women with Endometriosis: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study
Our study suggests that a single bout of a 'self-managed' VR-delivered exercise may be as efficacious as a single session of 'supervised' telehealth-delivered exercise in providing immediate relief from pelvic pain associated with endometriosis
Psychology (14 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Creativity (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works)