Börsintroduktion med vilken tankeaktion? - En studie kring det kritiska tänkandet hos juniora investment bankers

Sammanfattning: The study investigates how the industry culture within investment banking affects critical thinking among junior employees. A qualitative method has been used concluding in-depth interviews with junior employees and former junior employees who has left the profession. The aim of the report is to receive a deep understanding of how the individuals evaluates information gathered through observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication and how they engage in the intellectually disciplined process of actively and ably conceptualizing, applying and analyzing as a guide to belief and action. The findings suggest a lack of critical thinking among the active professionals concerning the relation between the work and related health issues, private life and how to manage situations that arises at the investment bank. Further, the study identifies a distinction between the exercise of critical thinking among active professionals and those who have left the profession in a sense that the latter shows a higher extent of exercising critical thinking. The study also concludes that the individuals identify themselves with their profession to the extent that the profession defines them as a person which explains the fact that the individuals reproduce the industry culture.