Soft Skills in Workplace Volunteering and Internships
Critical Thinking Assignment (75 Points)
Important! Read First
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.
Option #1: Personality and Motivation—Analyze a Personality
Demonstrate your understanding of personality and motivation, and your critical thinking and writing skills, by synthesizing theories of personality and motivation as covered in your textbook readings this week. Include any theories you have discovered on your own personality and motivation research efforts. Base your response to this assignment on the personality of somebody with whom you have direct experience in the workplace—it could be a peer, a manager, a subordinate, or even yourself.
Your well written paper should meet the following requirements:
Write clearly and logically, as you will be graded on content, analysis, and your adherence to the tenets of good academic writing—which should be succinct where possible while also exploring the topics appropriately. Remember that you can always improve your work by providing support from outside scholarly sources, which both help to bolster your own assertions, as well as supplement your ideas.
Business Management and Administration Library Guide
A Library Guide is available via the following link to serve as a great resource in this course for you. The Library Guide provides a variety of pre-selected databases within the library that are designed to support this specific course. Be sure to use this link throughout the course to support your assignment and discussion board research efforts: Management Library Guide (Links to an external site.)
Option #2: Soft Skills in Workplace Volunteering and Internships
After reading Hoy’s (2011) article regarding internships and volunteering and visiting the Student Career Center (Links to an external site.) to read the information about soft skills, identify an opportunity to volunteer or intern through your current workplace, through an organization connected to your field of study, or one found through the Student Career Center (Links to an external site.). Keep in mind that volunteering on a workplace committee, as an extension to the community or working under a mentor’s care, are all examples of volunteering or internship (to name a few). Once you have identified your workplace opportunity, choose four soft skills from the list and complete the following:
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Write clearly and logically, as you will be graded on content, analysis, and your adherence to the tenets of good academic writing—which should be succinct where possible while also exploring the topics appropriately. Remember that you can always improve your work by providing support from outside scholarly sources, which help both to bolster your own assertions and supplement your ideas.
Business Management and Administration Library Guide
A Library Guide is available via the following link to serve as a great resource in this course for you. The
Library Guide provides a variety of pre-selected databases within the
library that are designed to support this specific course. Be sure to use this link throughout the course to support your assignment and discussion board research efforts: Management Library Guide
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