A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics
Recent Conceptualizations of Critical Thinking (Volume 1)
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A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Recent Conceptualizations of Critical Thinking (Volume 1) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics. Each volume encourages critical thinking as a higher order type of thinking that can be taught, leading to a life of rationality, ethics and empathy, which is urgently required of leaders in a global environment where fraud and corruption are rife.
Volume 1 explores a working definition of Critical Thinking for this Book; gives the domain, scope and paradigms of Critical Thinking; presents key theories, traditions, schools, models and strategies of Critical Thinking; outlines systems thinking through the lens of Critical Thinking; and, details Critical Thinking for Understanding Basic Fallibility & Falsifiability of Human Thinking. It is essential reading for all MBA students, as well as for researchers and practitioners.
Introduction: Why We Need Critical Thinking
- Chapter 1. Characterizing the Concept, Domain, and Scope of Critical Thinking
- Chapter 2. History of Critical Thinking and Some Models of Critical Thinking
- Chapter 3. Critical Thinkers and Practical Models of Critical Thinking
- Chapter 4. Critical Thinking of Our Beliefs, Behaviors, and Their Impact Systems
- Chapter 5. Systems Thinking through the Lens of Critical Thinking
- Chapter 6. Critical Thinking for Understanding Fallibility and Falsifiability of Our Knowledge
A must-read for anyone interested in developing graduate-level critical thinking skills and teaching future corporate leaders how to take a more nuanced perspective on the paradigm-shifting challenges they are likely to face when transitioning into their managerial career.
Organizational leaders continually tell us that what they need most are employees that know how to think and learn... Including these monographs on critical thinking in the MBA curriculum will go a long way to providing this essential need for the market.
Critical thinking is essential for me and my students. These authors clearly motivate the importance of critical thinking and present techniques to encourage students’ development.
Oswald Mascarenhas, Former JRD Tata Chair Professor in Business Ethics, XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India
Munish Thakur, Associate Professor, Strategic Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India
Payal Kumar, Principal Academic Advisor, Indian School of Hospitality, India