MBA and Social Work Assignment

MBA and Social Work Assignment

Activity Context

This study helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:

Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Activity Instructions

Two key competencies that will help you throughout your academic program and business career are the abilities to communicate effectively in writing and to work accurately and effectively with quantitative data. In this study, you will complete a self-assessment in aspects of each: the Wonderlic Writing Assessment, and an assessment of your skill in using Microsoft Excel. While neither of these is a comprehensive assessment of your competency, both can serve as initial indicators of where you might want to devote some time and effort to build skills. Your results on these assessments can help you determine resources to enhance your skills and put together a plan to address any weaknesses or potential areas for growth.

To do this week:

Complete the Excel assessment.
Complete the Wonderlic Writing Assessment, following the instructions below.
You will use the results of these assessments in the first discussion in this unit.

Instructions – Wonderlic Writing Assessment

This assessment activity provides the opportunity to receive feedback on your writing skills. What you learn from the results of this assessment will help you plan ways to improve those skills.

For this writing assessment, you will write a 1–2-page persuasive essay in response to the following prompt:

Many people have argued that the skills needed to be successful in today’s workforce have changed. What skills do you feel an individual needs to be successful in a job today? Why do you feel these skills are most important? In an essay to be read by your instructor, identify the skills you feel are most needed by an individual to be successful at work and provide reasons to persuade your instructor that these are the most critical skills for success.

Although the question is posed in a very general way (“the skills needed to be successful in today’s workforce”), you can make the activity more meaningful by writing more specifically about the skills that are needed for success in your profession or the job to which you aspire.

This essay will be machine-graded, using an artificial intelligence program. You will have only one opportunity to submit this essay for grading.

To understand the criteria that the artificial intelligence program will use to grade your essay, review the Wonderlic 6-Point Persuasive Writing Rubric.

Please follow these instructions:

Use the prompt to compose your 1–2-page essay, a response to the prompt, in MS Word. Before submitting, you might want to use MS Word’s spelling and grammar-checking functions, just as you would when composing any other course paper.
Save a copy of your essay to your own files.
Disable any pop-up blocker that is active in your Internet browser. A pop-up blocker will prevent your essay from being submitted.
Click Wonderlic Essay Submission to submit your assessment within our Wonderlic vendor’s Web site.
Copy the text of your essay and paste it into the essay submission box. Submit the essay to Wonderlic. If you experience problems with this step, please review Troubleshooting for Wonderlic Essay Submission.
You will receive the machine-grading of your essay via Writing Assessments Results within two days of your submission.
Review the recommendations for areas of improvement to prepare for the first discussion in Unit 1.

Self-Assessment Results

Your current Excel level: Moderate

Needs Improvement
Moderate
Proficient

You already know quite a bit about Excel, but it looks like you would benefit from more information.

As you progress through your graduate program, the way you use Excel will grow increasingly complex. These resources will support the knowledge you already have and help you develop new skills.