Page No 151-158
Ambrien Ahmed
Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida
Resilience in managerial life is worth looking in to as managers need to be more resilient
so that they can bounce back from the loads of pressures and adversities encountered in
business. In this context, there is a need to understand the resilient ability of a manager
against his personality traits and thinking pattern. With this assumption, a research
is designed to examine the relationship of personality dispositions, cognitive style
and decision making style with resilience of management students. A sample of 130
management students was selected randomly between the age group of 20-25 years.
The tests used are Resilience Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Cognitive Style
Inventory and Decision Making Inventory. Results showed that resilience has positive
association with thinking-personality type and an inverse relationship with feelingpersonality type.
Systematic and intuitive-cognitive styles have shown positive correlation
with resilience. Further, behavioral-decision style has shown negative association with
resilience. The study concludes with the implication of resilience in the business world