apart from the board management division snafu I find this "audit" problematic to say the least. Critical thinking is a pretty damn difficult animal to put your grips on.
Are companies going to start getting a quota of graduates with a philosophy major (because as was so wonderfully [that is with an air of sophistry ...] stated a few years ago "studying philosophy teaches you to think") or apply a random section of psychometric testing for job selection.
Please pretty please introduce such an idiotic law as there are a bunch of us (granted a really really small bunch) who'd really benefit from requirements that enterprises have critical thinking skills in their HR bundle.
Generally speaking, in corporates who do this kind of thing, one of the measures (over and above the psychometrics) is a case study in which you are supplied with a number of facts and scenarios.
You are then required to put together a report and presentation with a number of key questions that need to be answered and a recommendation that you need to make based on your analysis and insights. This culminates in a presentation that is made before a live audience and videographed - this, together with your report, presentation and feedback from the audience you presented to, plus all your notes, rough work, scribbles, etc. is used to compile your rating.
This exercise generally lasts about a day or so (depending on the number of case studies).
So, if you conclude with "I recommend that we erect eToll gantries 'cos my best bud the prez reckonzzs it's a kief idea" you would tend to score badly unless the only information in the source material consists of "your bud the prez sez put in gantries 'cos that way we all score bigtime - put a presentation together"
I'm somewhat impressed, that they spent the money doing the evaluations - the professional companies who do them are generally very careful to point out that the outcomes are to be used for development and skillbuilding and not for getting rid of people.
