IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL THINKING

Abstract

Improving organizational health through the implementation of critical thinking was discussed as necessary information to encourage the adoption of critical thinking in the workplace and ensure increasing value-addition for organizational sustainability. Critical thinking its meaning and principles were reviewed. It was discovered that critical thinking is distinct from conventional thinking in not allowing bias and emotions to influence its output. It is predicated on actions whose validity and accuracy are verifiable to ensure the outcomes are something original and hence, offering alternative to conventional, expected or routine decisions or solutions. As a precursor of innovation and creativity which organizations require to generate new operation ideas for developing products and services that command market shares, it enables the maintenance of competitiveness, increasing revenues, improvement in organizational productivity and hence, enhancement of organizational health. Some factors that constitute barriers to implementation of critical thinking were mentioned to enable managers and other stakeholders avoid them for the realization of expected benefits of critical thinking such as inducing fruitfulness of business activities to keep organizations healthy.