A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Recent Conceptualizations of Critical Thinking (Volume 1) - Hardcover

by Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas Sj (Author), Munish Thakur (Author), Payal Kumar (Author)

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Recent Conceptualizations of Critical Thinking (Volume 1) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics. Each volume encourages critical thinking as a higher order type of thinking that can be taught, leading to a life of rationality, ethics and empathy, which is urgently required of leaders in a global environment where fraud and corruption are rife.

Volume 1 explores a working definition of Critical Thinking for this Book; gives the domain, scope and paradigms of Critical Thinking; presents key theories, traditions, schools, models and strategies of Critical Thinking; outlines systems thinking through the lens of Critical Thinking; and, details Critical Thinking for Understanding Basic Fallibility & Falsifiability of Human Thinking. It is essential reading for all MBA students, as well as for researchers and practitioners.

Author Biography

Oswald Mascarenhas, Former JRD Tata Chair Professor in Business Ethics, XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India

Munish Thakur, Associate Professor, Strategic Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur, India

Payal Kumar, Principal Academic Advisor, Indian School of Hospitality, India