Common sense inPhilosophical Perspective

Common sense inPhilosophical Perspective

Common sense in

Scientific Perspective

Common sense in

Scientific Perspective

Philosophical Perspective

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•It is an intuitive psychology shared by all humans.

•It is an intuitive psychology shared by all humans.

• It is an advanced cryptic arguments to the effect that changers only approach, not real.

• It is an advanced cryptic arguments to the effect that changers only approach, not real.

•He said that very few would understand the logos or underlying order of the world.

•He said that very few would understand the logos or underlying order of the world.

•It is an innate ideas that could

easily lead to dogmatism

or error.

•It is an innate ideas that could

easily lead to dogmatism

or error.

• It is an innateintuition.

• It is an innateintuition.

•It is an innate knowledge.

•Mechanistic view of human nature stimulus when time passed human/ developed reasoning skills.

• Moral intuition- innate knowledge about right.

•It is an innate knowledge.

•Mechanistic view of human nature stimulus when time passed human/ developed reasoning skills.

• Moral intuition- innate knowledge about right.

Scientific Perspective

Scientific Perspective

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Simon 1987; Crussan et al, 1999; Patton, 2003)•Common sense and/or intuition is built primarily on experience.Chester Barnard•Rationality and intution/common sense play complementary role in managerial decision-making.Simon (1987)•Managers draw on both analysis and intuition in responding quickly to problems and situations. •Intuition and judgement (good), are simply analyses frozen from habit(capacity for rapid response through recognition)•In order to respond quickly to circumstances manages need to cultivate intuition and judgement over many years of training and experiences.

Bennett•Intution/common sense needs to be stimulated by explicit knowledge and analysis and intuition should be intermingled in decision-making.Patton•A balance between intuition and logic in decision-making, intuition understood as pattern recognition based on experience and learning that is used in complex situation that require instantaneous actions/behavior.Tsoukas(1994)•Common sense mainly is something to be transcended.

Lamond(1998)•Management is in any important way “common-sensical” ,that is, whether there are any universal, cross-cultural, common-sense elements to management.

Nitecki (1987)•Common sense as a potential hindrances to sound managerial thinking and problem- solving.•Two basic understanding of common sense:

•Intuitive Principle of mind•Common Understanding