Critical social thinking

Grossman, Rebecca; Thayer, Amanda L.; Shuffler, Marissa L.; Burke, C. Shawn; Salas, Eduardo

doi:10.1177/2041386614535423

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“…Manifestation of critical thinking relates to the skill to make a reasoned decision to act and to act confidently. Similar findings are in research by Rahman (2019), Özgenel (2018), Franco et al (2017), and Grossman et al (2014. Findings of the research correspond to the data about reasoned decision making (Ganzer-Ripoll et al 2019;Hansson, Hirsch Hadorn 2018;Bouwmeester 2013).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issuessupporting

confidence: 89%

The critically thinking employee: employers' point of view

Indrašienė¹,

Jegelevičienė²,

Penkauskienė³

et al. 2020

JESI

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Critical thinking is one of the most significant skills and abilities, which have direct impact on individual success and society's welfare. Especially loud is the voice of employers drawing attention to the need for critical thinking skills in the labour market and in a rapidly changing world in general. The World Economic Forum (2018) indicated the ten most wanted and needed skills in the labour market of 2020: critical thinking was placed at number two, following problem solving at number one. The American Management Association (AMA) Critical Skills Survey (2010, 2012) revealed that, according to employers, employees need to think critically, solve problems, innovate, collaborate, and communicate more effectivelythey must excel at the "four Cs": critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. The goal of this article is to find out what and how employers with different managerial experience see critically thinking employees in today's labour market. The research is based on phenomenography methodology and is the first such type of research about critical thinking in Lithuania. The phenomenography study revealed three hierarchically interconnected categories: Adecision to act here and now; B-verified and assured decision to act. C-innovative decisions for operational improvement. Empirical data allows identifying critical thinking related expectations of employers who anticipate that their employees could deal with emerging situations and are able to reason chosen decisions. Employers state that the critically thinking employee could give innovative suggestions; research participants describe critical thinking as higher order reasoning which gives added value to an organisation. Such understanding

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Section: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issuessupporting

confidence: 89%

The critically thinking employee: employers' point of view

Indrašienė¹,

Jegelevičienė²,

Penkauskienė³

et al. 2020

JESI

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“…Critical thinking is also often seen from a pragmatic and rather consumeristic point of view as the ability of members of an organization to act in vague, stressful, and uncertain circumstances [27,115] and as a fast and efficient instrument for solving various problems [115][116][117][118][119] in order to achieve economic viability. It is important for critical thinking (as well as for knowledge management) to build on the existing knowledge so that it can be further developed, improved, and turned into advanced ideas and innovations and sustainable and long-lasting results.…”

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confidence: 99%

Linking Critical Thinking and Knowledge Management: A Conceptual Analysis

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Knowledge management and critical thinking are two broad and important phenomena for contemporary society. Their concepts are both well-discussed in the literature. However, the existing conceptual links between them have not been analyzed, and the role of critical thinking in the process of effective knowledge management has not been revealed. This article aims to fill this gap by presenting the conceptual connections between knowledge management and critical thinking. In order to reveal the inner structure of each concept and identify the conceptual connections, a critical review was conducted. The results showed the links between the concepts of knowledge management and critical thinking within three dimensions: relationships, process, and goals. In conclusion, each dimension is presented and described, with a special focus on the unexpected and deep intersections revealed between the two concepts on a personal, interpersonal, and societal level. This research may be regarded as providing the basis for further analysis of the links between these two phenomena. Increased awareness of the existence of critical thinking in knowledge management can forge new directions in organizational strategies and staff training programs.

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“…Individuals who are socially skilled (i.e., more successful at achieving their social goals) are likely those that pay careful attention to how Others are reacting to their behaviors. They accurately perceive how Others are reacting to their behaviors, they have knowledge about how new behaviors are likely to influence others, and they have the behavioral flexibility to engage in a range of behaviors that they believe will have the desired influence (see also Grossman, Thayer, Shuffler, Burke, & Salas, 2015).…”

Section: A Social Skills Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Meanings of “Social Skills”: Proposing an Integrative Social Skills Framework

Heggestad

Voss

Toth

et al. 2023

Group & Organization Management

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Business leaders and HR professionals have long recognized the importance of social skills for effective organizational functioning, particularly in roles requiring high levels of interpersonal interaction. Accordingly, organizational science scholars have produced a large amount of research that can be organized under the broad heading of social skills. Yet, three key issues in the literature are hampering progress: (1) the lack of a well-accepted articulation of the social skills phenomenon, what it is and what it is not; (2) conceptual redundancy and conflation among the set of social skills-related concepts (e.g., individual differences, skills, behavior, evaluations, etc.), and (3) full consideration of the importance of social behavior in understanding social skills. We propose solutions for understanding social skills that begin to resolve these issues and help strengthen future empirical research. Specifically, we present two distinct, but related, conceptualizations of social skills: social skills enactment and social skills reputation. We then offer a theoretically grounded perspective, the Social Skills Framework, which incorporates these conceptualizations of social skills, provides a structure into which existing social skills concepts can be integrated and evaluated for conceptual clarity, and centers social behavior. After describing the framework, we offer a research agenda that focuses on refining the framework and investigating key issues related to the two conceptualizations of social skills.

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Critical social thinking

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

The critically thinking employee: employers' point of view

The critically thinking employee: employers' point of view

Linking Critical Thinking and Knowledge Management: A Conceptual Analysis

Two Meanings of “Social Skills”: Proposing an Integrative Social Skills Framework

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