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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 1 Assignment

Critical Thinking Paper

Purpose of Assignment

Critical thinking is an important part of problem solving, decision making, and everyday life. So, what is critical thinking and why is it so important?

Assignment Steps

Prepare a 700-word (maximum) paper on critical thinking including the following:

      • Explain critical thinking.

      • Provide an example from your personal experience of critical thinking applied to a business decision.

      • Discuss the importance and benefits of using critical thinking.

      • Relate the importance and benefits of critical thinking to the example provided.

      • Discuss ways you might use critical thinking in your current job or chosen career path.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 2 Assignment

Business Practice Argumentative Essay

Review the "Writing Argumentative Essays" section in Ch. 3 of Critical Thinking.

Write a 1,000-word (maximum) argumentative essay on a controversial topic including the following:

      • Clearly present to topic under consideration

      • Clearly state your claim (your position regarding the topic)

      • Identify your reasons in support of your position.Ideally you will enumerate or bullet point these reasons together with any cited references in support of your reasons

      • Compile a logical conclusion for your argument.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 3 Assignment

Problem Identification

Purpose of Assignment

For this assignment, the Learning Team conducts basic research related to a business problem. This allows students to use critical thinking in their research to identify problems and discuss how to develop potential solutions. This will build a foundation for the rest of the Learning Team's assignments.

Assignment Steps

Select a business situation such as reorganization, office closure, expansion, etc.

Locate 1 to 2 articles from the University Library about the subject.

Prepare a 700-word discussion of the business situation. The discussion should include the following:

      • Summarize the issue

      • Identify the symptoms manifested by the issue

      • Develop a list of quesitons you would ask as you attempt to get to the core problem

      • What is the core problem

      • Explain why this is the underlying problem

      • Relate the research you undertook to get to the problem

      • Explain how a clearly defined problem could help with solutions

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 3 Assignment  

The Planning Process

Purpose of Assignment

For this assignment, the student will identify and interview someone they know who is in a management role. This allows the student to integrate the experience of real world managers with their own insights into planning and strategy. The assignment also reinforces the importance of contingency planning.

Assignment Steps

Interview someone you know who is in a management role. This can be at your current place of employment or someone you know personally working in a managerial role.

Prepare a 1,050-word discussion of the interview:

      • Define what is meant by a contingency plan

      • Discuss what you discovered about contingency planning.

      • Discuss how creativity and critical thinking relate to contingency planning.

      • Explain how you might integrate creativity into your own contingency planning process.

      • Discuss what you learned about creativity and its relationship to the decision-making process.

      • Identify the key steps that might be required in contingency planning.

Please note that you are not to include the interview questions with your submitted paper.

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 4 Assignment  

Problem Solutions

Purpose of Assignment

For this assignment, the Learning Team will identify two possible solutions to the core problem identified in Week 3. During this discussion, consider the methods used to think of creative solutions. Describe how critical thinking was used in the group discussion to

identify these solutions, and explain how the team overcame barriers.

The assignment should demonstrate how the team used the four key factors with their business decision.

Assignment Steps

Select two potential creative solutions for the problem you identified in Week 3.

Create a 700-word discussion of potential solutions and the team's decision-making process.

• Identify two potential solutions.

• Summarize the methods the team used to develop creative solutions.

• Describe ways the team overcame barriers to creativity to identify solutions.

• Discuss how critical thinking was applied to come up with potential solutions and to motivate change.

• Explain how the team used the four key factors to make the suggested business decisions.

Cite a minimum of two sources.

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 4 Assignment  

Decision-Making Process Presentation

Purpose of Assignment

The assignment for Week 4 gives students a chance to examine their own decision-making process as well as use a creative method to illustrate the stages of the process. This gives students the opportunity to take their real world, personal decision and relate it to their future work and careers.

Assignment Steps

Create a "Decision-Making Process" graphic presentation in an appropriate format for the organization based on the action plan. This is to be done using Microsoft PowerPoint.

      • Select a decision you made recently as it relates to your work or desired career.

      • Identify the stages of the decision making process as it relates to your decision.

      • Create your graphic presentation as you would for a management meeting

      • The notes section of the PowerPoint slides should be the wording you would use as you deliver your presentation

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 5 Assignment  

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Purpose of Assignment

This assignment is designed to identify how decisions impact a business. Corporations have an obligation to be ethical at all times. For this assignment; the student will identify potential ethical implications surrounding the decision, and how this may impact the decision-making process. From there, corporate social responsibility will be explained and how it can impact the outcome of decision-making for an organization.

Assignment Steps

Identify a business in your local community. This can be your current place of employment or a business with which you are familiar.

Develop a 1,050-word examination of the ethics and social responsibility practices within the organization.

Include the following in your examination:

      • Select a business decision within the organization.

      • Identify the potential ethical implications associated with this decision.

      • Determine the effect this may have on the decision making process.

      • Identify how the organization applies corporate social responsibility to the business.

      • Evaluate the influence that corporate social responsibility has on the organization.

      • Discuss the application of critical thinking to corporate social responsibility.

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PHL320 Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Business

Week 5 Assignment  

Identify a business in your local community. This can be your current place of employment or a business with which you are familiar.

Complete an examination of the ethics and social responsibility practices within the organization. Include the following in your examination:

Select a business decision made within the organization.

Identify the potential ethical implications associated with this decision.

Determine the effect this may have on the decision making process.

Identify how the organization applies corporate social responsibility to the business.

Evaluate the influence that corporate social responsibility has on the organization.

Discuss the application of critical thinking to corporate social responsibility.

Create a powerpoint presentation to cover each bullet point. No more than 6 bullets per slide and no more than 6 words to describe each bullet. Use speaker notes. Add visuals to each slide and reference page. The Company will be Budweiser and the recent decision will be how Budweiser replaced its logo on the cans with "America".

You can use this website as a reference but feel free to use more if you need to. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/05/10/budweiser-renames-cans-beer-america-anheuser-busch/84176886/