A recent organizational problem occurring in my work place relates to
             a situation where a personal banker is thought to be forging customer
             signatures on loan paperwork. As bank manager, I have to confront this
             employee in regards to the actions they have been accused of. This problem
             will now be considered by applying critical thinking to it. This will
             begin with a description of the setting, proceed to a framing of the
             problem and a consideration of the types of thinking used. Finally, other
             forces of influence will be considered. This consideration will allow the
             problem to be understood in more detail, with this assisting in finding a
             The setting is an organizational one, where in the bank environment I
             am the bank manager and the banker is an employee. This setting puts me in
             a position of authority, and the banker in a position of subordination.
             This includes the banker as a subordinate to myself as manager, and also to
             the bank itself, since their actions are controlled by the bank. In
             addition, the banker has been an employee for a long time, while I am a new
             The first way the problem can be framed is by assuming that the
             accusations about the banker forging signatures are true and considering
             why the banker would choose to forge customer's signatures. This framing
             of the problem considers the situation from the moral viewpoint of the
             banker. It will be assumed that the banker would consider the forging of
             signatures wrong. The fact that they are forging signatures then suggests
             that there is some other reason that overcomes their knowledge of the act
             as wrong. This other reason results in a justification of their actions.
             This leads to the question of what reasons the banker could have for
             forging signatures, which leads to various possibilities. One possibility
             is that the banker is simply lazy or incompetent and prefers to forge
             signatures, th...