SOCIAL AXIOMS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING STYLES IN AN INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

What are social axioms and problem-solving styles, and how do they fit in the professional environment of higher education? The research seeks an answer to the question in a sample of 34 university lecturers using a shortened and an easier-to-use version of SAS test and Kirton KAI Inventory for the styles. Verification in the environment of SPSS 23 shows a uniform distribution and high values of Cronbach's reliability coefficient. The axioms Effort-Reward and Social Complexity are leading for the respondents. Efficiency and Conformity are the leading decision-making styles. The values of the subscales Originality, Effort Reward and Social Complexity are below 0.7. No correlation has been found between the professional experience of the researched subjects and the studied social axioms and problem-solving styles. A partial one has the university position in one of the styles and two structural components of the social axioms. Only in one case ANOVA confirms the hypothesis of a correlation between the social axioms' subscales and problem-solving styles (Destiny Control-Conformity). Social axioms and preferred problem-solving styles appear to show some flexibility. Their leading components satisfactorily fit into the conditions of the professional activity of the studied lecturers.