[ADMS 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (77 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Joel Marcus

Document Summary

Involves: asking questions examining assumptions weighing the validity of arguments. Critical thinking allows you to make better decisions. Self-aware: introspective know personal biases name strategies used to make judgments. Independent: explore beneath the surface of issues try new approaches seek new viewpoints listen to and learn from others develop their own informed opinions make their own judgments. Critical: comes from the greek work, kritikos, which means to question, analyze, or make sense of something. Main discourse: economic performance, productivity, global markets, financial investments . Business values: spreading to non-business spheres (e. g. universities, health-care, government ) Lots of noise (uncertainty) in the business world. Need to develop procedures to assess truth or validity of different ideas. Dimension of critical thinking: central claims (chapter 2, quality of evidence (chapter 3, underlying assumptions and values (chapter 4, causal claims (chapter 5, techniques of persuasion (chapter 6) First collegiate business schools established around turn of century (1900s)