BMSK5001 Developing Workplace Critical Thinking (GC01572)
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.
1.1 Concept of critical thinking.
2.0 Critically assess the impact of beliefs, attitudes and values on own workplace behavior
2.1 Explain the difference between beliefs, attitudes and values.
2.2 Explain the impact of workplace attitude and behavior
2.2 Critically assess the impact of beliefs, attitudes and values on own workplace behavior
3.0 Identify a management theory relevant to your role and critically assess its impact on your own beliefs, attitudes and values.
3.1 My role in the workplace.
3.2 Different management theories.
3.3 Management theories relevant to my role in the workplace.
3.4 How management theories impact my own beliefs, attitudes and values in the workplace.
4.0 Conclusion.
Reference.
1.0 Introduction
McDonald’s is one of the largest fast-food chains is very famous for its Hamburgers and for quality food supply in more than 100 countries all over the world with 35,000 outlets of fresh food providing in the 21 century. Its headquarter is situated in Oak Brook, Illinois of the United States. McDonald’s was first emerged by two brothers named Maurice and Richard McDonald in San Bernardino, California in 1984. The popularity towards the people has gained by Ronald McDonald’s was established in 1963. At present McDonald’s is the eighth largest business company in the USA with 375,000 dedicated and devoted employees whose ambitions are to reach the company to the highest rank in the marketplace. But the success of this company caused some unexpected increased criticism for its popularity worldwide. Then, it is innovated its business strategies to healthy items to its menu and the company faced numerous calls by the employees to increase wages several times (McDonald’s Annual Report, 2017).
The organizational culture of McDonald’s helps to develop the goal of its company and McDonald’s applies organizational culture to target its potential customers as well as skilled employees. Then, organizational culture helps McDonald’s to create its business international. On the other hand, human resource development is emphasized by the organizational culture of McDonald’s. McDonald’s organizational culture includes different characteristics such as individual learning, organizational learning, people centricity and diversity and inclusion (McDonald’s Annual Report, 2017).
This paper firstly describes the concept of critical thinking. It is also critically assessed the impacts of beliefs, attitudes and values on the workplace.
1.1 Concept of critical thinking
Critical thinking concept is the intellectual approach by which a manager can do any solution of problems by skillfully applying, conceptualizing, synthesizing, or generated by observation, reflection, experience, reasoning and communication maintaining as a guide of belief to take action against the problems. It involves evaluation of several structures formed for finding behind causes of problems, questions-at-issues, purposes of tasks, assumptions, concepts, reasoning leading to end, empirical grounding, consequences and implications of thoughts, views, innovations, inventions by the manager of an organization to solve the problem instantly. Critical thinking includes scientific thinking, analytical thinking, technological and technical thinking economic thinking, moral and rational thinking towards the company to resolve any misunderstanding between the employers and the employees (Michael Scriven, Richard Paul, 1987). Critical thinking includes three steps (including problem, thinking and solution) which are outlined in figure 1 as follows:
Critical thinkers need to be very honest in their finding of reasons behind the occurrence that occurred in an office. The truthful thinkers find the real causes for the problems actually caused for that. This process is totally self-guided program by which the thinkers attempt to find the reasons at the highest grade quality in a modest mind. They generally use critical thinking analytical tools that offer making concepts, rules, principles that encourage them to assess, analyze and improve their thinking. They work relentlessly to improve their hidden quality by intellectual values of intellectual humility, intellectual integrity, intellectual empathy, intellectual civility, and intellectual thoughts of judgments of the real reasons. The critical thinkers regard them as devoted persons that help them to realize that doesn’t matter of thinking how skilled they are as critical thinkers they only improve their reasoning abilities and they also make mistakes in reasoning, human irrationality, biases, prejudices and vested intention. They do not practice cross-cultural rather fair-minded intentions (Linda Elder, 2007). Critical thinking includes different raw materials that are outlined in figure 2 as follows:
2.0 Critically assess the impact of beliefs, attitudes and values on own workplace behavior
2.1 Explain the difference between beliefs, attitudes and values
As Mele (2016) notes, beliefs are those convictions in combination with some miraculous thought, views, and rules without any visual pieces of evidence on behalf of the beliefs to some extent. Milton Rokeach has innovated a theory on the beliefs, attitudes, values to conceptualize the persuasion the customers to buying consume several services or to obey some definite life hack rules in daily life. He explained that these beliefs, values and attitudes are to same according to his religious or manners legacy (Raymond Boudon, 2013). For understanding this topic vastly, here beliefs, attitudes, and values are described in below:
Beliefs
As David (2014) notes, beliefs contained by a person persuade him to maintain life with some different rules that are varied from other person or community. One upholds some miraculous theories that are not scientifically proved. Beliefs encourage people to distinguish right and wrongs by which beliefs he holds. For instance, religious beliefs, superstitions beliefs, soul beliefs, self-realizations and assumes that obtains a person by hierarchically or traditionally. Any single belief existed in men life gets increasing day’s continuous dedicative experience doing very helpful jobs for the customer care (Anderson and De Silva, 2016). Some beliefs can be noted here as instances, I believe that there is a life after death, I believe there is a creator of the universe. In this sense, beliefs can be classified into two categories: a) central beliefs- which cannot be changed, and b) peripheral beliefs- which are easier to change according to men need…………..
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