{"id":73,"date":"2018-10-11T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:55:18","slug":"73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/10\/11\/73\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 – Rank, Talk, Write"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a business owner, I am always looking for ways to improve my workplace. Gino and Staats\u2019 article, Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves<\/em> is particularly relevant to my leadership area (2015). The article focuses on three things employers can do to help their employees use critical thinking in their position: Process, Identity and Time.<\/p>\n

1. Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

To help employees use critical thinking, Gino & Staats say there needs to be a \u201cshift in ownership of the process from the manager to the worker\u201d (2015). They further state that many \u201cmanagers punish their subordinates for failing to follow instructions\u201d but then \u201ccomplain that employees don\u2019t think for themselves\u201d (2015). To achieve a change in process, managers need to focus on the outcome not the process.<\/p>\n

2. Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Identity is enabling employees to \u201c… bring their true and best selves to work\u201d (Gino & Staats, 2015). Gino and Staats argue that, \u201cPeople \u2026 lose their sense of identity at work [because they] learn how to behave in clearly defined ways\u201d (2015). By giving employees \u201cthe ability to reshape [their] actual work,\u201d they are able to use critical thinking in their position (Gino & Staats, 2015).<\/p>\n

3. Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aspect of time is \u201callow[ing] individuals to consider how best to complete the work that needs to be done within the constraints of the company and their own lives\u201d (Gino & Staats, 2015). By giving employees time flexibility, a manager gives them the opportunity to think about their tasks a different times.<\/p>\n

The focus of this article is the transferral of critical thinking from managers to employees. The authors argue that for the past hundred years, management\u2019s main role was to identify the best processes and then have workers follow the processes precisely (Gino & Staats, 2015). In today\u2019s world, though, the only way for companies to thrive is to get employees to think and not just follow procedure. The authors then state that many organizations merely stress building critical thinking and developing \u201cprocess-improvement skills\u201d rather than redesigning the actual jobs of their employees (Gino & Staats, 2015). Essentially, jobs need to be redesigned so they give employees ownership over how they perform their job, how they act within their job and how they manage their time while completing their tasks.<\/p>\n

Gino, F. & Staats, B. (2015, June). Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves. Harvard Business Review<\/em>. Retrieved from https:\/\/hbr.org\/2015\/06\/developing-employees-who-think-for-themselves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a business owner, I am always looking for ways to improve my workplace. Gino and Staats\u2019 article, Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves is particularly relevant to my leadership area (2015). The article focuses on three things employers can do to help their employees use critical thinking in their position: Process, Identity and Time. … <\/p>\n

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