hard/soft value reccomendation

English translation: required/mandatory vs. steering towards

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English term or phrase:	hard/soft value reccomendation
Selected answer:	required/mandatory vs. steering towards
Entered by:	Hikmat Gumilar

19:29 Mar 21, 2009

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Social Sciences - Management

English term or phrase: hard/soft value reccomendation

...by providing hard/soft value reccomendations....

Hikmat Gumilar KudoZ activity Questions: 145 (2 open) (1 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 2591 Indonesia
Local time: 05:22

required/mandatory vs. steering towards

Explanation:
the use of directives vs. the encouragement to adopt by offering benefits (and the benefits could be tangible or intangible)

Selected response from:

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 00:22

Grading comment

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3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

required/mandatory vs. steering towards

Charlesp

tangible/intangible

ErichEko ⟹⭐

admonition/advice

Alexandra Taggart

3 -1

Hard hitting recommendations

Gary D

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Hard hitting recommendations

Explanation:
Based on your limited text..

hard value recommendations, ones which provide the most pain but get a higher valued result.

soft value recommendations: Ones which effect fewer people/ processes and have fewer returns / outcomes for the effort applied

Gary D
Local time: 08:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 3

13 hrs confidence:

hard/soft value tangible/intangible

Explanation:
Those which exact dollar can be sorted out: hard, those which cannot: soft. Example:
=hard: limit overtime work --> save people cost
=soft: empower workers --> will make overtime less, but not sure how much.

ErichEko ⟹⭐
Indonesia
Local time: 05:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Indonesian
PRO pts in category: 15

1 day 5 hrs confidence:

admonition/advice

Explanation:
Only guessing.

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 01:22
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

1 day 23 hrs confidence:

required/mandatory vs. steering towards

Explanation:
the use of directives vs. the encouragement to adopt by offering benefits (and the benefits could be tangible or intangible)

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 00:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 3

Grading comment

thanks

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