The Abductive Argument

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the best talent. The speaker suggests that if we treat people like people and contribute to everyone’s yearn to have purpose then organizations can be built and the world might be just a little bit better. Example, if you offer rewards they are most likely willing to work harder and smaller rewards shows less effort.

2. Explain how the author arrived at the conclusion or point or substantiates the claim. An argument may be supported by Abductive arguments.: An argument that (i) points out a certain fact, (ii) points out that if a certain hypothesis were true, we would get this fact, and so (iii) concludes that that hypothesis is indeed true. (Abductive arguments seem to make an even bigger jump than inductive arguments: inductive arguments generalize, …show more content…
Then it says well what if you let people do what they want on their job force and do a day of autonomy. The speaker then says instead of treating them with rewards treat them as people and you will get the same “hard working” if not better outcome. He was basically stating that if you pay people enough to where they aren’t even thinking about money then their work effort will increase. His point is let them feel as if they are self-directed even though you directed them to be their self in the first place.

3. Which major section of the reading or film had the greatest impact on you and why:
What impacted me the most was what if companies had once a month a day of autonomy. That would open many workers to come up with great ideas that can benefit the company and themselves. It made me think that it is true people will work harder and put forth more effort in stuff that was their idea. Another thing that is true is if you keep bargaining people with coercive power by “if you do this then you get that” they won’t work as hard because it’s the same reward system in
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