BMSK5001 Developing Workplace Critical Thinking with Sainsbury’s (GC01584)
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
2.3 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 as a duty manager in the workplace (Sainsbury’s)
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.
References.
1.0 Introduction
Sainsbury’s is well-known and the second-largest supermarket retailer in the UK. Sainsbury’s is under the LSE (London Stock Exchange) and FTSE 100 index registers Sainsbury’s. As Sainsbury’s (2016) notes, Sainsbury’s is founded by John James Sainsbury in 1869. It serves its customers more than 1,415 outlets over the world and more than181, 900 employees are engaged with Sainsbury’s. As of 2017, the revenue of Sainsbury’s is about £26.224 million. On the other hand, the net income of Sainsbury’s is near £377 million (Sainsbury’s, 2016). In addition, as of 2017, the operating income of Sainsbury’s is approximately £642 million.
While visiting Sainsbury’s the cultural organization’s visible aspects shown the complete recognizable of uniforms that the staff wore. On the other hand, the layout of the Sainsbury’s store has its own persona. However, the veiled aspects of Sainsbury’s are on the attitudes, values, beliefs, styles of behavior that make the friendly environment. Sainsbury’s includes six values which are great service drive sales, individual responsibility, getting better every day and respect for the individual. Human resource and business activities develop the organizational culture of Sainsbury’s that includes strategic workforce planning (Sainsbury’s Annual Report, 2017).
This assignment is mainly focused on critical thinking and the assignment is divided into two parts. The first part of this assignment is critically evaluated the impact of beliefs, attitudes and values in the workplace. On the other hand, the second part of this assignment is identified the management theory relevant to my role as a duty manager of Sainsbury’s.
Concept of critical thinking
According to Anderson and Silva (2016), the term “Critical thinking” is a kind of skill of a human being by which a person can think rationally and clearly about what that person wants to believe or do. Then, critically thinking skill encompasses the skill in the person that helps him/her to involve in independent thinking or reflective thinking (Paul and Elder, 2015). As Brookfield (2016) notes, a critical thinker is capable to recognize the logical links among the ideas, to construct, assess or identify the opinions, distinguish the mistakes/inconsistencies, solving different problems in a systematic manner, to recognize the importance of relevance of the ideas and to reveal on the reasoning of a person’s own values, beliefs and attitudes.
On the other hand, the critical thinking skill is not about the matter of gathering information. However, an individual is not being a good critical thinker if he/she has sharp memory as well as knows many facts (Clay-Warner and Robinson, 2015). Then, both positive and negative events initiate the critical thinking skill. Thus, critical thinking is rational and emotive. ‘figure 1’ is outlined critical thinking as follows:
As Hudson (2016) notes, rationality is the characteristic of a good critical thinker and they are always looking for the real facts. They look for genuine information (such as different conflicting facts) to verify their personal reasoning and beliefs). A good critical thinker’s goal is to discover the true facts not to authorize their personal beliefs. Moreover, they also have the ability to find out their wrongs. After that, they are very open to reviewing their reasoning. On the other hand, a good critical thinker is some quality characteristics (including empathy, fair and open-mindedness). In addition, they can give importance to other persons as well as can visualize the viewpoint, values, reasoning and assumptions of other persons.
Furthermore, they do practice different characteristics (including logical skills) and identify the issue they want to know. According to Fisher (2016), a good critical thinker is logically self-sufficient, courageous or strong. They try to make them fit in any kind of inquiry as well as thinking over different social obstacles. Additionally, critical thinker does not apply the socio-centric partiality but practice great qualities such as cross-cultural, universal, fair-minded etc. However, socio-centric partiality creates while persons uncritically take the prejudices and beliefs as that is a dominant or authoritative view of a social group (including nation, religion, and so on). The ‘figure 2’ is outlined the raw materials of critical thinking 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
The theory of Beliefs, Attitudes and Values is the intellectual constancy theory that specifies the values, attitude or beliefs of the persons which must be in the harmony with each other (Paul and Elder, 2015). This theory also describes the importance of the values, attitudes or beliefs of a person (Rokeach, 2016). Moreover, it is also significant to appreciate the components of this theory to represent how values, beliefs and attitudes are connected with each other………
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