Critical Thinking Assignment on "Grief and the Workplace"

Critical Thinking Assignment Summary Page | Criteria | Your points | 1. Summary of the issue | * Individuals are expected to go through certain stages during their grief work process in order to emotionally relocate their loss and achieve closure * Managers and organizations need to offer support and recognition of the grieving employee’s loss to prevent disenfranchised or stifled grief * Work with a moral purpose can help to transcend grief | 2. Other theoretical perspectives related to this issue | * Temes’ 3 stages of grief (Numbness, Disorganisation, Reorganisation) * Bonanno’s 4 trajectories of grief (Resilience, Recovery, Chronic dysfunction, Delayed trauma) | 3. Assessment of supporting data or evidence | * Small sample size for some researches mentioned * Lack of objectivity with numerous self citations * May have confirmation bias * Legitimacy of the huge loss figure due to hidden grief in the workplace | 4. Key assumptions and influence of contexts on the issue | * Every individual faced with a recent loss should display the behaviors from the stages of grieving if they are not suffering from stifled or disenfranchised grief * Professional support or grieve counseling is beneficial * Context: does not consider the different cultural impact and society’s expectations of a grieving person as well as financial conditions of the grieving employee | 5. Overall analysis of this article (conclusions, implications, and consequences) | * Hazen’s recommendations may encourage the pathologization of grieve when concerned managers failed to observe any grieving behaviors from employees * Grieve counseling should be recommended with care |

This paper is a critic of the article “Grief and the Workplace” by Hazen, M. A. It provides a summary of the article; alternative perspectives on grief; assessment on the validity of the evidence and key assumptions put forth in the arguments; and the impact of context on grief in

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