Critical Thinking and Managerial Decision Making
Assessment: Practical and Written Assessment-
Task Description: The purpose of this task is for you to demonstrate your ability to critically analyze, synthesize and evaluate information and present that information in a written format. A list of articles will be available on the unit's Moodle site for you to choose from. You will then write a critical article review based around your responses to the following questions.
Critical Analysis
o What is the background of the research? (Background)
o What is the research problem? What do we know about the research problem? What do we not know? (Research objective and literature
review)
o What are the core research questions the article addresses? Why are they important to address? (Research questions)
o How was the research conducted? (Methodology)
o What where the major findings? (Findings)
o What are the significance of the findings for future research or management practice? (Significance/implications)
Critical evaluation
o In your view, are there any limitations with this research?
o What are some of the assumptions that the authors have made in this research? Do you agree with them?
o What is your overall evaluation of the article's effectiveness and credibility?
Please do not simply list the questions and your response to them. The questions are to be used simply as a means for you to critically think about your chosen article. Your review needs to contain answers to these questions, but they need to be in essay format, that is, containing introduction section, body paragraphs and a conclusion section.
Article - How might language affect critical thinking performance? by Emmanuel Manalo, Chris Sheppard