BMGT 464 - Skills Assessment/Job Position

BMGT 464 Week 3 Assignment Criteria

Topic: Where is the best place for you in the VMI team? Virginia Meats has hired you to take one of four open managerial positions. During this period of your onboarding into the company, Mr. Chinn, the CEO, is assessing the position for which you will bring the greatest strengths. He has asked HR to provide him with a series of tests that will aid him in assessing your placement. A short job description for each of the open positions is also provided. Since you are familiar with these positions and their roles from your orientation, you realize these tests will not only tell Chinn the job for which you are best suited, but also will enlighten you as well. This self-knowledge may give you a better idea of your fittedness and likelihood of gaining the position. Directions: 1. By THURSDAY, complete the following:

• See the steps set out below and complete the table and explanation of the results. • You must use course material to support your responses and APA in-text citations with a reference list.

2. THROUGHOUT the week, complete the following: • Respond to your classmates three or more days throughout the week. Remember you are trying to develop the

best answers possible to the questions. Your classmates are doing the same so read the posts carefully looking for the best ideas being presented. The goal is that by the end of the week the class will come to some consensus as to the best answers giving you the chance to submit the best ideas in the final post.

• You must use course material to support your responses but you do not need to use APA in the brainstorming discussion with the exception of Friday's initial first impression post.

• Participation is worth 2.5 points each week (20% of the final grade). Participation must be reflected in the final post so grades will be affected by the content portion of the post if participation is not shown. Therefore, it is important to get in the class often and with the idea of improving your initial post with the discussion so that the final grade will be the best you can deliver. 3. FINAL POST, complete the following:

• Attach your final post in the classroom by SATURDAY at 11:59 p.m. ET.

• The final post must reflect the brainstorming activities and should be different than your Friday initial post. • The final post must include a variety of sources from the class material as well as the use of scenario or case

study facts where appropriate. • It must USE APA in-text citations and reference list.

Steps for Completion of the Assignment: Step 1. Below you will find the instruction “Skill Assessment Chart & Quiz Links”. Take all of the quizzes found in the list. Step 2. You will report your results by creating a Word document and include this table. You will identify the type of quiz, list all component scores and then answer the implication questions. These questions are found in the “Skill Assessment Chart & Quiz Links” instruction. Do not copy or summarize from the explanations given by the test website. Instead, with that explanation in mind as it pertains to your own traits and behaviors, answer the questions concisely.

Type of Quiz Quiz Taken and Results (list all components)

Implication Question Answers

Step 3. In your report, this table will be followed by a 2-page summary (singled spaced) in which you explain your results and select the position or positions for which you will be the best fit. The final report should be organized as follows:

1. a brief introduction naming the position for which you are applying 2. the completed table 3. a discussion of quiz results that explains ‘you’ by integrating the results with our knowledge base (learning

materials) from weeks 1-3, primarily week 3 readings. Rather than rehashing from the test websites or your answers in the table, you will be demonstrating your understanding of the meaning of these results as explained by our theories and concepts in required readings.

4. the analysis of the job for which you are applying. Address the job or jobs that best fit you and/or the one you want and your reasons for the selection. In that discourse, you will explain how the test results indicate your fittedness for the role. Our required readings will provide the theories for you to prove your understanding of trait-related behaviors. In this write-up, it should also be clear how you will affect the two types of performance and affective commitment of the organization. Either in the job analysis or a final conclusion, address the effectiveness of your selection for the organization.

The Scenario:

You are still a newly hired manager at PRU. Your onboarding is being personally overseen by the CEO Daniel Chinn. As part of getting to know you, he instructed HR to give you four personality assessments. You will be writing up a report with your assessment results in the table, discussion of those results, and then discussion of the four open job positions. You’ll be explaining to him how both strengths and weaknesses render you a good fit for one of these jobs, while also explaining your lesser ‘fit’ into the other three positions. When reading the job descriptions, keep in mind our PRU profile information as well as your own vision for PRU that you have been developing in previous weeks. We are still trying to prepare PRU for the future, retain the familial qualities of its culture, and develop a learning organization within it.

Logically, the discussion of your results should be within the knowledge base given by our readings this week and aided by previous weeks (such as that of generational cohorts and the learning organization). You will want to avoid rehashing the website explanations. Instead, reason through results by showing connections between them as well as how it connects with our theories.

This, then, prepares you to promote yourself for the position best suited while objectively explaining your weakness for the other positions. Be sure to demonstrate what you know rather than talking about how great you are. ����

Composition:

Approach and perspective: Keep in mind this is an analytical business report not an academic writing assignment. In a typical academic paper, you would research the library and summarize the articles about the topics studied. In contrast, a business report is analytical (single space). Do not summarize our learning materials or the testing websites. Instead, get to your point, make your point, and prove your point. You will state your point (the point sentence in a paragraph). Explain it (this is where using key facts from the case are helpful) and then prove it using our required course content from the classroom. Give in-text citation.

Voice:

In this assignment, you are presenting yourself as an objective, reasonable professional. You will need to use first person "I" when appropriate to speak about yourself. At all other times, write objectively in

third person voice. There should be no opinion statements such as "I think" or "In my opinion." Write objectively and analytically yet refer to yourself when you are the subject (e.g. "The results indicate I...").