Soft Skills in Workplace Volunteering and Internships

Soft Skills in Workplace Volunteering and Internships

Critical Thinking Assignment (75 Points)

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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.

  1. Describe the person’s personality broadly (either as described by the “Big Five” model, or by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator from Chapter 9 of your textbook).
  2. Given what you know of the personality under examination, explain which theory, or theories, of motivation would be most effective for a manager to use when trying to help this individual achieve his or her full potential at work.
  3. Describe the process of determination, and the theory, or theories, you eventually recommend.
  4. Explain how the manager can use the tenets of that theory, or those theories, as applied to the person who serves as your case study.

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:

  • Analyze each of the four chosen soft skills in connection to what skill is important to your chosen volunteer or internship opportunity.
  • Examine each with specifics, details, and offer examples related to your field of study.
  • Conclude with a reflection of how your own soft skills could positively impact the chosen volunteer or internship experience.

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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Apart from having technical skills, volunteers or interns need to have soft skills to boost their employability. Volunteering and internships create an opportunity for interns to build their soft skills, which are essential and can only be gained through experience. Considering that soft skills cannot be taught in educational institutions, volunteering act as an experiential learning opportunity for individuals. Hoy (2011) holds that such chances are an entrée into the archival profession. With that in mind, I have succeeded in getting to volunteering at a relief agency, Concern Worldwide, where I have to provide a couple of services such as data entry, providing first aid, and sorting relief items among other assigned tasks. The soft skills that are important in my identified volunteering organization are adaptability, communication, teamwork, and problem-solving…

 

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