“Managers’ Mental Health: Links between Competitive Pressure, Cognitive Biases and Enterprise Innovation Decision-Making as Well as Organizational Resilience”
Yang Hu, Linzhi LiAbstract
Objective
Taking managers’ mental health as the core research object, this study explores the psycho-economic mechanism of market competitive pressure on managers’ psychological states. Intense market competition induces psychological pressure and mental health fluctuations, which trigger cognitive biases. This paper further examines how deteriorated managerial mental health and biased cognition affect enterprise innovation decision-making and organizational resilience cultivation.
Subjects and Methods
A total of 120 high-tech enterprise managers were recruited as research samples. Based on questionnaire surveys and regression analysis, this study takes managers’ mental health and psychological pressure as core variables, cognitive biases as the mediating variable, and enterprise innovation decision-making and organizational resilience as outcome variables to verify the relevant psychological influence mechanism.
Results
Market competitive pressure significantly impairs managers’ mental health and exacerbates negative psychological states. Poor mental health further induces obvious cognitive biases, weakening managers’ strategic judgment rationality. These psychological and cognitive problems greatly hinder high-quality enterprise innovation decision-making and restrict the sustainable cultivation of organizational anti-risk resilience.
Conclusions
Managers’ mental health is the core psychological foundation of corporate strategic performance under competition. Competitive pressure-triggered mental health decline and cognitive biases form key psychological barriers to enterprise innovation and resilient development. Optimizing managers’ mental health and correcting cognitive deviations can effectively improve corporate innovation decision-making quality and organizational competitive resilience.
Corresponding Author
Linzhi Li, Science and Technology College, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang 441025, China.