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Critical Thinking as a Qualified Decision Making Tool

Journal of History Culture and Art Research, 2019

Decision making is a process that we unintentionally apply hundreds of times a day. While the decisionmaking process for important decisions requires more time-consuming thinking, it can take place instantaneously and spontaneously in situations that have already occurred or where the outcome is not significant. Since decisions are important in human life, it is obvious that the way to make better decisions is to think better and therefore individuals can benefit significantly from having critical thinking skills. In this study, the concepts of decision-making and critical thinking are examined separately to determine the bond and importance between them. The study has a qualitative research feature and a comprehensive literature review and examination have been made. The information obtained as a result of the study conducted within the scope of qualitative research showed that critical thinking is an important requirement for individuals to make better decisions, while various decision-making techniques also contribute positively to the quality of critical thinking of individuals. It is very important for individuals who want to make more successful decisions both in their personal and professional lives, in order to improve their critical thinking capacities and to benefit from decision techniques in making high importance decisions. For today's and tomorrow's executives who influence the lives of countless people with their decisions, developing critical thinking skills will be an approach that requires determination and commitment as an indication of their respect for their professions.

What Critical Thinking and for What?

SOCIAL WELFARE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

The article discusses the construction of the critical thinking concept in higher education and its change in scientific publications between 1993 and 2017. Based on a systematic literature review, the following research questions are raised: how does construction of critical thinking concept change in the context of higher education during time? How are personal, interpersonal, and social aspects expressed in the concept of critical thinking in the context of higher education? The systematic literature review revealed significant grow of publications starting from 1998. It is also disclosed slight change in treating critical thinking as purely general or domain-specific competence. The authors of the researched articles do not make clear division between critical thinking as a general and as a domain-specific competence. Researchers in different fields tend to associate critical thinking with the development of a person’s cognitive and intellectual capacities, including skills and...

Critical Thinking and Its Vulnerabilities

Effective Executive, 2022

This article suggests that the notion of 'critical thinking' is a far more perplexing and maleable notion that it may at first sight appear to be. The article highlights the significance of organisational bias and the impact of the mindset of key executives in shaping how 'critical thinking' will come to be defined and construed.

Critical Thinking : A Literature

2011

Critical thinking includes the component skills of analyzing arguments, making inferences using inductive or deductive reasoning, judging or evaluating, and making decisions or solving problems. Background knowledge is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for enabling critical thought within a given subject. Critical thinking involves both cognitive skills and dispositions. These dispositions, which can be seen as attitudes or habits of mind, include openand fair-mindedness, inquisitiveness, flexibility, a propensity to seek reason, a desire to be wellinformed, and a respect for and willingness to entertain diverse viewpoints. There are both generaland domain-specific aspects of critical thinking. Empirical research suggests that people begin developing critical thinking competencies at a very young age. Although adults often exhibit deficient reasoning, in theory all people can be taught to think critically. Instructors are urged to provide explicit instruction in critical th...

Critical thinking and problem solving Abiy Serawitu(PhD)

Dire Dawa management and Kaizen Institute 2021, 2020

The purpose of this manual is to provide an insight about critical thinking for quality Decisions making &problem solving for government and non-government officials. Critical thinking is one of the most essential soft skills a person can develop over their lifetime. In most occasions, officials come across different routine Decisions that will hamper or promote the success of an organization due to technical capacity of critical thinking. Accordingly, this training manual is prepared to provide technical details for officials how to manner critical thinking as a habitual action for improved Decisions making &problem solving. The word "critical" can mean different things in different contexts. For example, it can refer to the importance of something, or can also mean pointing out the negative aspects of something, i.e. to criticize something.