Thinking and Decision Making Team Paper
Today's business world needs employees who can think clearly, intensely, and precisely. These people must be able to resolve problems, make decisions, and answer questions. Critical thinking is a system that is used by many leading corporations worldwide. Critical thinking is a method of thinking relating to any topic, matter, or predicament. Critical thinkers use many different thinking styles in their quest for a final decision. In this paper, this learning team will address a few of the many critical thinking styles.
This learning team is going to start off with emotional thinking. The term emotion is defined as the affective aspect of consciousness; a state of feeling; a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body, (Merrian-Websters’s online Dictionary) When one is discussing critical thinking emotions can play a big part in the outcome. People’s emotions are closely related to their beliefs and are instilled in us as children. Most everyone uses emotions when dealing with situations.
This learning team is going to use a workplace example for all the thinking styles. In this style of emotional thinking this learning team will show how emotional thinking creates a conflict. A company has just installed a new computer system called Oracle. The employees were told that they were going to be getting a new computer system that would make their jobs better. At first everyone was truly excited about this new system until they had to start using it. They quickly found out that the new system did not make their jobs better, in fact, now the ...