CRITICAL THINKING AND MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING

Assessment: Practical and Written

Article  - Beyond Critical Thinking and Decision Making: Teaching Business Students How to Think by Gerald F. Smith

Article Review

Task Description: The purpose of this task is for you to demonstrate your ability to critically evaluate information and present that information to an audience or your peers. You may pick any of the articles listed on the unit's Moodle site. You will then write a review based around your responses to the following questions. Please do not simply list the questions and your response to them.

The questions are to be used simply as a means for you to critically think about your chosen article.

You will then present this information in class. Both the written review and the presentation must answer the following questions:

What is the topic of the article? Based upon the article what do we know about the topic of the article?

Based upon the article is there a gap in the literature or some new development that needs to be explained?

How was the research conducted? What where the findings?

What are the implications of the article for management practice?

What is your overall evaluation of the article's effectiveness and credibility?

Learning Outcomes Assessed

- Evaluate and reflect on the importance of critical thinking and the benefits of using decision-making processes to assess and solve business, managerial and organisational problems

- Critically analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply creative decision-making approaches to address business issues and problems

- Communicate complex concepts, ideas and solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences with the aim to influence and persuade others to adopt new positions.

Referencing Style - Harvard