You Can Lead A Horse to Water, but Can You Make Him Think? Human Cognition’s Impact on How Well Our Administrators Can Juggle The Management of Human Performance in Today’s Schools

By understanding human cognition and the significant role it plays in regard to human performance, management at all levels can be more effective and better equipped to develop ways of sustaining optimal human performance in the workplace. A review of current management research suggests a skill set of special attributes is required for effective strategic or executive management. Models of instructional design propose successful methodologies for creating, implementing, and evaluating programs as well as instructional systems. The essence of human cognition is based on the synthesis of plethora of human learning theories that drives the field of systematic design of instructions that suggest that targeting diverse domains of human learning and behaviors, can improve people management and organizational behaviors. In this article, the authors present a unique relation between human cognition, instructional design, and management. By learning the significant role each factor plays, effective as well as creative management strategies can aid human performance improvement to excel beyond its own limitations