Mgt 350 Week 2 Paper

Thinking and Decision Making

Ashley Portillo

Debbie Betancourt

Angel Torres

Julian Lujan

MGT/350

May 9, 2011

Robin Sully

Abstract

Thinking logically and identifying reasoning fallacies in one's own and in others' thinking is the heart of critical thinking (Kirby & Goodpastor, 2007). Critical thinking reflects a lot of thinking styles that are affected by it. Some of the thinking styles are creative, emotional and pessimistic thinking. Creative thinking is making changes to something that has already been created. Emotional thinking is letting yourself think with your personal feelings. Last, pessimistic thinking is having a negative view towards a situation.

Thinking and Decision Making

Thinking is the process of thought as to decision making is the cognitive procedure of attaining a decision. When Thinking and Decision Making are applied to the thinking styles of Emotional, Pessimistic and Creative, each style will result in a different outcome when applied to the decision making process. Emotional styles often use very basic thought processes as to a Creative style that maximize the ability of their brain to think of new ideas. Both of these styles do not compare to a Pessimistic thinker. This style just does not think clearly and gives up rather quickly. These different styles will be more elaborated further on.

Emotional Thinking Style

Emotional Thinking often involves basic thought processes which include, things already known, personal experiences and events in life. Critical Thinking helps each person to take command of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and desires. Emotions are important in the workplace; it makes each person have detailed attention, which in turn helps the persons learning and memory. Emotions and instinct are part of human nature that is in each and every person. Wen-Yu Chao (2006) states the following about emotional thinking “Emotions and feelings are not logical, but it doesn't mean...