Organizational Scope of Critical Thinking


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
"In any complex environment systems are necessary, but they must serve an organization rather than become its masters." This is how Ralph S. Larsen, chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson, describes both the need for systems and their inherent risk. Organizational systems, with complex and intricately interrelated components, demand the application of critical thinking to avoid this risk and to use the systems most effectively. In this course, learners will understand the role that critical thinking can play across an organization.

Target Audience
supervisors, managers, directors, executives, team leaders, project leaders, and coaches

Expected Duration (hours)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Critical Thinking and Organizational Systems

  • recognize the benefits of using organizational features to support critical thinking.
  • identify examples of the characteristics of business organizational systems.
  • match principles of organizational dynamics with examples.
  • match systemic features that promote critical thinking within an organization with examples.
  • apply features that encourage the development of critical thinking systems to a hypothetical business situation.

    • The Critical Thinking Process in Work Groups

  • recognize the value of establishing systemic support for critical thinking teams.
  • identify examples of issues that are best handled by a critical thinking team.
  • analyze whether a critical thinking team should be deployed in a hypothetical organizational scenario.
  • identify examples of conditions for successful implementation of critical thinking in a workplace democracy.
  • apply conditions for successful implementation of critical thinking in a workplace democracy in a hypothetical scenario.

    • Critical Thinking and Organizational Ethics

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the complex interactions between ethics and critical thinking.
  • sequence examples of the steps of ethical decision making.
  • apply the five steps of ethical decision making in a hypothetical organizational scenario.
  • match the foundation principles that support ethical organizational behavior with examples.
  • apply foundation principles of ethical support in a hypothetical scenario.
  • match the ethical traits associated with critical thinking with examples.

    • Course Number:
    PD0255