Assignment for MGT 942:
Write about a problem faced by your (current or past) organization. Explain the problem. Write how you might approach this problem using YOUR thinking style. One might be emotional, one logical, one scientific, one creative, one pessimistic, and one optimistic, etc.
Review the details of the problem and how your thinking style might affect various stakeholders the organization. Show how your particular thinking style might positively and negatively affect decision making in your organization.
Compare and contrast your thinking style with another approach to this problem using ANOTHER thinking style.
Sample list of thinking styles: Emotional, Closed question, Pessimistic, Logical, Open question, Optimistic, Scientific, Deductive, Divergent, Creative, Inductive, Convergent.

Response

I would like to share my experience working for a research group at a leading public university. The group can be called an organization because there were around 20 members in the group ranging from laboratory manager, laboratory assistants, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate students. The laboratory could be compared with any small company. Like most academic laboratories, my advisor shunned from collaborative work because he was paranoid that someone might scoop his ideas. He did not trust his own lab members to work together. His attitude was that the only he could control his lab was to micromanage the lab.
Following were the main problems faced by the group: 1. Low productivity 2. Low employee retention: Nobody stayed beyond a year 3. Negative work environment
My thinking style can be best described as deductive. If I have to deduce the roots of the above problems, they will be: 1. Low productivity: Everyone was expected to work on their own individual project independently. This was time consuming since each one took a