Sociologist: Support Suggestions for improved efficiency that derive from employers are unlikely to elicit positive responses from employees, who tend to resent suggestions they did not generate. ββ ββββββββ ββββββ βββββββββ ββββββ βββ ββββββββ ββ β ββββββββββββββ ββββββββ ββββ ββββββββββ βββ ββββββββ βββββββββββββ ββ βββ ββββββββ ββ βββ βββββββββββ ββ ββββ ββββββ ββββ βββ βββββ βββββββββ ββββ ββ βββ ββββ ββ βββββββββββ ββββ βββββββ βββ ββββββββββββ
The author concludes that an employer should try to engage an employee in a dialogue that emphasizes the employeeβs positive contributions to the development of ideas that improve efficiency. Why? Because the author believes doing this will get those ideas implemented more quickly and effectively. What's the support for this belief? Because employees donβt like efficiency suggestions that they didnβt come up with.
The premise in the first sentence states that employees donβt like ideas they havenβt come up with. But we don't know that this implies employees are less likely to implement those ideas. Does resenting an idea imply that you won't implement it quickly or effectively? We don't know. So the author hasn't proven his claim that emphasizing the positive contributions of the employee toward an idea will help get the employees to implement the idea more quickly and effectively. One way to strengthen the argument is to help fill this gap β to establish that employees actually will be more likely to implement ideas when employers emphasize the employees' contributions toward those ideas.
Another way to strengthen the argument is to establish that if a technique will help employers more quickly and effectively implement an idea for improved efficiency, then an employer should use that technique.
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