AkashC
Vyshak
Employees who understand their fit into the organization are motivated to do well.
To improve workers morale, corporate leaders should consider participatory style of management.
We have to establish a link between the above two statements.
A) Workers with responsibilities are more motivated than those without. - Incorrect. Out of scope. Argument does not provide any info to compare between workers with responsibilities and workers without responsibilities.
How is option A out of scope? Option A says workers that have responsibilities are more motivated - this is well within the scope of the argument. If you negate this - Workers that have responsibilities are NOT more motivated than those without - the argument falls apart. If workers with responsibilities are NOT more motivated than those without, how can you still say a participatory style of management(which involves giving responsibility to employees) will improve workers morale? Seeing as giving them responsibility is not motivating them.
To be honest, option A and option D both seem like valid assumptions of this question to me. Can someone please help me understand why option A is wrong?
I also put A, but after some reflection I think D works better. Here's my reasoning (hope it helps).
Bear in mind this is an assumption based question, with these types of questions you should always attempt to make the littlest jumps possible.
A) Workers with responsibilities are more motivated than those without. The prompt only tells you explicitly that those who feel that they are part of a process are more motivated. The next sentence then talks about the "participatory style of management" in which workers are given responsibilities, but it doesn't give any premise that the workers are more motivated.
I disagree with the poster before, who said that this statement is "out of scope". It plays exactly to the logical flow of the argument, but forces you to make the jump in logic that the employees given work in the participatory management understand their role in the overall business process. You shouldn't make this jump so it's incorrect.
D)
Having responsibility for a segment of an enterprise helps employees grasp where they fit within an organizational structure. This addresses the conclusion (and kind of the problem we have with A). It correctly addresses the gap in logic in the argument by stating that workers under the part. style of mgmt are more motivated BECAUSE they better understand their place in the work product.