...Thinking Critically Simulation Review Paper MGT/350 July 5, 2011 Thinking Critically Simulation Review Paper Thinking Critically Simulation will test the ability of a manager, in real world scenarios. Using learned knowledge to diagnose the correct problem, while using techniques and other tools to solve the underlining issues. First this simulation applies the decision making techniques and evaluation tools in solving the problems that arise in this business model. Second this simulation teaches mangers in developing the techniques; that will assist them in making decision that will generate a more predictable outcome. Third this simulation will take in account the decision making steps and use the decision making worksheets to evaluate the findings in the simulation. Finally, the assignment will assist future managers on the basic process of managing developing techniques and decision making skills in becoming a better leader and manager that uses critically thinking in making business decisions. The first phase of the simulation the team was designated for the most challenging assignment that Linda James had to offer. Our team took charge of a company with numerous issues. Some issues the company was facing included: declining sales, employee attrition, legal action, inventory, product mix, variable pay, and Wide Area Network (WAN) problems. Aware of the background of this company and knowing the symptoms Credenhill is experiencing, our team identified and evaluated...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Review Names Mgt/350 Due Date Professor Problem Formulation and Identification When making decisions toward a problem, a manager is responsible for coming up with a solution or solutions to solve the problem. There may be the same situation that may occur in but not every individual will choose the same solution to solve the problem. Based on the Thinking Critically Simulation an individual is to assume a role of a manager and find ways to come up with solutions to solve the problem. The four people on Team X took the simulation will result in four different ways of using the tools and techniques to solve the problems. For Team X to complete the simulation members had to record their information on three documents that would help them come up with a valid solution to solve the problems that was mention in the simulation. Allowing each individual to discuss what she thought of the simulation, discusses how the tools and techniques used and how changing an individual’s way of thinking will prove that not everyone think alike and that there is not right solution. The simulation is designed to test Team X’s problem formulation and decision implementation skills. Terria’s impression of the simulation was that it allowed an individual to see what problems managers have when trying to manage a business and how they will come up with a decision. She believed that this allowed the individual to be put...
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...Thinking Critically Thinking Critically An asset is someone or something that is a viable liquidity that expresses a positive value. Being a positive value to a company is a person who can analyze and execute decisions. In this simulation our team had to establish ways to overcome adversity that happens in everyday business. Establishing a value to these problems helps the understanding of how to solve intricate problems in business. Using several tools and techniques helps to develop a clear concise simulation outcome to better business. Evaluation Tools and Techniques The problem solving tools and techniques used in the simulation are importance weighting, criteria matrix, and benchmarking. In the beginning of the simulation the user is asked to categorize the problems of the store into four different categories. These categories are: urgent and critical, non-urgent and critical, urgent and non-critical, and non-urgent and non-critical. This is both an example of importance weighting and criteria matrix because the user is asked to place importance on the problems faced and then asked to place them into a matrix based on that importance. Benchmarking came in at the end of the simulation when we’re being asked to choose the metrics that will be used to measure the impacts of the decisions made previously. The problem solving tools that I would have chosen are histograms, mind mapping, and cause-and-effect (fishbone) diagrams. First I would...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Review Joslynn Smith Jill Clayton Brenda Robinson Bernadette Brandhagen-Mayor Leon Crutcher Bill Schmelzle MGT/350 7/6/10 Melvin Jeppson Thinking Critically Simulation Review Problem solving tools and techniques As a group we decided on using a couple of problem-solving tools, brainstorming and cause and effect/fishbone method. The first step we did was to define some of the problems facing Credenhill’s. The biggest problems were; sales falling continuously for the past eight weeks, (especially in the high-end product categories), legal action notice from the city, regarding a disability access law, high competition with a new store a block away, and a loss of a manager and employees to the competition, $80,000 unsold inventory, problems with the Wide Area Network (WAN), and unhappy employees. We use the Man-Method-Material-Machine format to help us organize our brainstorming solutions into categories. [pic] We started using brainstorming, all ideas presented were discussed and considered. Ideas were then added them to the fishbone under the correct category. It helped for all of us to brainstorm, generating numerous ideas to help fix the problems. After we were done with our brainstorming of ideas, each team member presented their idea more thoroughly. A letter was assigned a letter to each idea on the diagram, and each group member was given a piece of paper. On the paper we categorized the problems...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Paper This paper will frame the problems in which Credenhill Industry is experiencing, and evaluate the decisions made in focusing on framing the problems and making decisions regarding the effectiveness of the decisions made. Credenhill Industry's systematically operates a $750 million company today. They accomplished this by amalgamating the distinguishing circumstance of running a triad of subsidiaries, rejecting to go public and appointing Linda James, who is considered by colleagues as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the times. The company uses a comprehensive program to discover and guide bright green managers to fast track career opportunity in a five month. This program entails a challenge to three of the coworkers respectively overseeing one of the three subsidiaries and mentored by Linda James. The challenge began with the news of taking over controls as Store Manager of a Credenhill consumer electronics store in Dallas Texas. The sheer excitements of the brand-new position weakened as the results of long lists of ongoing problems were determined. A new store has opened up recently close by severely reducing the revenue for Credenhill. This issue produced a snowball like effect to the department store and its employees. The new store carried a bigger inventory, competitive pricing and was allegedly to pay their employee a higher salary. If this were not enough it was divulged that we were in legal trouble because of neglecting...
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...objectives of this assignment are to: Assess student’s ability to apply the knowledge and understanding of cross cultural management and negotiation learnt in this course by critically reflecting on negotiation simulations. Assess student’s ability to identify and analyses issues that were critical to the processes and outcomes of the negotiation simulations. Assess student’s ability to plan for a negotiation. Specific Tasks: This assessment item include four sections each approximately 500 words in length. In Part 1 of your journal, you are required to critically reflect on negotiation simulations from Week 9 to 11 and apply appropriate cultural, communication and negotiation theory/ies to identify and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses. In part 2 of your journal, you are required to critically reflect your final negation simulation on week 12 and identify your improvements and evaluate processes and application while including effective and ineffective strategies and tactics compare with week 9 to 11. In Part 3 of your journal, you are required to identify the most significant ethical issues surrounding the negotiation simulations from week 9 to 12 and provide recommendations on how could you avoid the issues. Your individual negotiation plan for the Final Group Negotiation Simulation in Week 12 forms Part 4 of your reflective journal. Please record and reflect on your negotiation planning process and specify your negotiation roles, responsibility, strategy...
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...Virginia Board of Nursing The Use of Simulation in Nursing Education Introduction This document provides information and guidance to schools of nursing (both PN and RN) in Virginia on the use of simulation in lieu of direct client care hours in the fulfillment of the clinical hour requirements for nursing education programs. As of April 2008, all RN nursing education programs approved in Virginia shall provide a minimum of 500 hours of direct client care supervised by qualified faculty, and all PN nursing education programs approved in Virginia shall provide a minimum of 400 hours of direct client care supervised by qualified faculty [18 VAC 90-20-120.E]. This document will outline the essential components and major concepts that are necessary when using simulation in lieu of direct client care. Background in Simulation Technological innovations are advancing practice across all domains of education and industry, and the same is true in nursing education. Simulation is gaining popularity as a means to provide innovative learning experiences and foster a richer understanding of didactic content. As nursing programs prepare to integrate simulation into nursing education, the Virginia Board of Nursing has prepared this outline of major concepts that need to be addressed when preparing and integrating simulation into nursing curricula. Simulated experiences provide the student with the opportunity to be involved in patient care experiences they may otherwise...
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...Week Three: Decision Making Details Objectives 3.1 Describe tools and/or techniques used in decision making. 3.2 Examine decision-making models and influences. 3.3 Apply a decision-making technique to a situation. Readings Read Ch. 14 of Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life. Read Ch. 1–3 of Smart Things to Know About Decision Making. Read Ch. 4, 12–26 of Decide & Conquer: Make Winning Decisions and Take Control of Your Life. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Participate in class discussion. Respond to weekly discussion questions. W3 8 2% Participation Discussion Questions Nongraded Activities and Preparation Decisions in Paradise Business Scenario For Weeks Three through Five, you will work individually using the Decisions in Paradise Business Scenario located on your student website as the basis for these three assignments. In this scenario, you will play the role of Nik, and your current employer is the organization represented by Alex, Nik, and Chris. You will also use the mission of your current organization to assist you in decision making in discussing this business scenario. There are three phases to this assignment which will be cumulative, meaning that each part will build upon the next. You will use this paper and feedback from your instructor as input to improve your Week Four and Week Five assignments. The three deliverables for this project are: Week Three: Decisions in Paradise Paper, Part I Week Four:...
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...Mt. Everest Simulation- Personal Reflection Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction to Mount Everest team and Leadership simulation 2 2.0 Our Team Process Efficacy 3 2.1 The role of the leader 3 2.2 Psychological Safety 5 2.3 Group Thinking 7 3.0 Conclusions 8 4.0 Reference 9 1.0 Introduction to Mount Everest team and Leadership simulation Climbing Mount Everest is a dangerous undertaking, a Herculean task fraught with difficulties, danger, complexities and volatile weather conditions. Disaster can strike without warning, leaving the most competent and experienced professional high altitude mountain climber gasping for breath, and desperately fighting to stay alive. Death is not uncommon to mountaineers who ascend Mt. Everest, a simple mistake, faulty judgments, miscommunication, wrong decisions or complacency can lead to disastrous consequences. Indeed, climbing Mt. Everest cannot be accomplished alone, individuals need to work together as a team, cooperate and collaborate with one another, and rely on one another's capabilities to ascend the mountain summit successfully. Everest leadership and team multimedia simulation is an attempt to help the participants experience and understand team dynamics and leadership. It requires participants to work as a unit, a cohesive entity, collaborating and communicating essential information in order to make effective decisions that will benefit individuals and the group in achieving their goals. The interactive...
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...Game Simulation that could be related to any person’s work place or daily life in general. The ethical issues presented in the Ethics Game Simulation “The Mysterious Blogger” were about whether the information obtained by a director of Information Technology was going to be enough information to discipline an employee for violating the company’s security policies by posting the compnay’s confidential information online. As for “The Veiled ID”, the ethical issues were concerning how to develop a security policy that can adequately provide for every employee’s physical safety while accommodating their special needs as well. The decision making steps that were taken to critically think about and solve these ethical issues were based on the job position that was given in each simulation. The Baird Decision Model that contains five steps that help in the decision making process. The decisions that were made were made to protect the interests of the shareholders and the well-being of the company and its employees all at the same time. Any person that made a contribution or investment to the company will be affected by any ethical issues that may come up about an organization or an employee of an organization. If a company’s policies are not followed and are disregarded in any way, disciplinary action should be taken so that policies are not broken in the future. The ethical perspectives, or lenses, that were used to help in the decision making process during the simulation were...
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...Throughout the semester, I have explored various concepts revolving around critical thinking. By exploring concepts like symbolism, bundled lore, evidence based knowledge, and hyperreality, I have learned that the majority of information that the average American believes to be true is based off of illiterate knowledge rather than literate knowledge, but more importantly, when critically thinking it is not the result that is most important, but rather how you get there. Critical thinking involves gaining background knowledge on a subject, taking multiple factors into consideration, searching for credible sources, and using these techniques to form an idea or opinion based off of it. It is easy to form and share an idea or opinion based on...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Professor Douglas Reed University of Phoenix 07/31/11 The primary tools provided in the critical thinking and decision-making simulation included research analysis provided by the organization and a decision-making matrix. Although these tools provided the framework for applying critical thinking activities they did not provide the additional tools to support long-term goals. Starting with assessing the problem, the research provided several issues with varying levels of urgency and critical nature. The simulation uses importance weighing to formulate the problem based on identifying the most urgent and critical issues. Although the tools provide support in identifying the most critical issues, they did not help establish whether the issues were affects of another problem. For instance, low sales at the Creedenhill location are an urgent and critical issue, but is only a result of the product mix and customer desire. Alternative tools such as flow charts and cause and effect diagrams work well for establishing problems that need to be addressed. The decision-making process in the simulation provided solution elements to choose from in order to create a comprehensive solution that addresses all of the key issues. The research provided great considerations to support the possible solutions. Logical approaches that combine solution elements to formulate a comprehensive solution assist the decision-maker to make thorough decisions based on...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Maurice Smith Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making /MGT 350 Cyndie Shadow, M.B.A. January 28, 2008 Abstract Business company owners and store managers in the retail industry must ensure their businesses are competitive to the industry, in order to maintain their store doors open. In the following scenario a problem evaluation and decision making process is simulated to assist in evaluating a specific retail stores current state. A description of the types of evaluation tools and techniques used and how they assisted with the evaluation of the decision-making process and outcomes will be outlined. A consideration if other types of tools and techniques would have generated better results will be evaluated. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the decision-making process and how different tools and techniques assist with critical thinking. Credenhill is a competitive retail business which is the subject of a simulation. At this time one of Credenhill’s local stores is dealing with problems which range from low sales, unhappy employees to other issues affecting their current operations. During the simulation we went through a problem evaluation and decision-making process intended to identify Credenhill’s current state, suggest corrective actions and measurements to ensure that the outcome of the corrective actions are beneficial to the store. In the following we will discuss the...
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...assignment of members to groups, each group undertook the Everest Simulation – a teamwork and leadership challenge requiring groups to ascent a virtual Mount Everest. Drawing upon a range of fundamental organisational and managerial concepts and coupled with frequent challenges, the simulation effectively replicated a dynamic and teamwork based organisational environment. The simulation seeks to test interpersonal relationships and group dynamics by creating dissonance on both an individual and group level, as groups and group members strive to achieve both individual and group goals. This report will critically analyse the very processes used to undertake the Everest Simulation, along with results, focusing on the three concepts of ‘Communication’, ‘Groups and Teams’ and ‘Leadership’. These are of critical importance to forming an analysis of not only the simulation itself, but also a broader organisational and managerial situation and the correlation between managerial theory and practice and the Everest Simulation. The transition in dynamics within the group between the different simulations, and the solving of numerous challenges corresponds to the improvement in our results of the simulation. Moreover, this transition and triumph also elucidates the practicality of managerial theories associated with ‘communication’, ‘groups and teams’ and ‘leadership’ and their applicability to not only the Everest Simulation, my personal and group results, but also the wider contemporary...
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...framework under which you operate being a continuously transforming environment. Healthcare and our understanding and application thereof is constantly changing and for that reason self-reflective attitudes of healthcare professionals is favourable. (Hendricks, et al., 1996) At one period in my educational background the year was met with many constraints, namely limited time, limited resources and an inexperienced, unqualified lecturer. In the very few contact sessions made available with the lecturer it was important to get through large masses of the workload, particularly the practical sessions as they are rather complex to self-study. The most viable method of getting through all this work in the allotted time was to practise the simulations in a behaviourist method which “concentrates on observable behaviour without considering motivation or other mental processes” (O'Neill, et al., 2005). This involved going through scenarios and memorizing key words as triggers to administer the appropriate drug. This behaviourist method of teaching and learning was passable as it helped the lecturer work through a sufficient volume of the required topics with the class in the short amount of time available. I managed to excel in the practical evaluation, achieving a relatively good grade. My grade was a true reflection of the ability of this particular approach to produce results exponentially due to its focus on “conditioned, convergent reflexes on a single task” (Kompa, 2015). It was...
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