Please answer the given questions based on content, coverage and imaginative thought. Please answer the questions as fully, covering all aspects of the question in your response.
1. Define Critical Thinking and describe its benefits and components.
2. How can you apply critical thinking to improve your decision-making? What happens to decision-making in the absence of critical thinking?
3. Can you be a critical thinker and still believe in absolute truth when making a decision? Why or why not?
4. What attributes would define you as a critical thinker?
5. Formulate an effective problem statement using comparative methods.
6. Provide examples of tools/techniques that help identify causes of the problem. Use illustrations if necessary.
7. Describe how each of the following Influences decision making:
a. Contextual factors
b. Urgency
c. Importance
d. Constraints
e. Resource availability
f. Political support
g. Personalities
h. Diversity
i. Globalization
j. Ethics
k. Media
8. How would managers with different decision-making styles utilize decision-making tools differently?
9. Define the elements of an effective implementation plan.
10. Why do good decisions sometimes have bad results?
11. What is the importance of having a contingency plan?
12. Provide examples of evaluation tools/techniques. Use illustrations if necessary.
13. How can you tell if your decision-making process was effective?
14. How can you evaluate an implementation plan? Provide examples.