BUS 520 Leadership & Organizational Behavior

BUS 520 ASSIGNMENTS

How to Submit Assignments: Click on the links in the Facebook Course Group to submit Assignments 1 and 3
through the Blackboard Student App (you must be signed into Blackboard or you will receive an error message). You
may also submit the assignments directly through the Blackboard course shell via the Blackboard Student App or a
laptop/desktop. **Note that Assignment 2 will be submitted directly in Facebook.

Assignment and Rubric:

Week 10: Assignment 3: Building Soft Skills Within Your Team: Create a Hiring, Training and
Talent Development Plan
Instructions:
When attempting to build soft skills at your organization, you must focus on your hiring practices,
onboarding, training, talent development, management and more. For this assignment, you will create a
plan for increasing soft skill development during hiring, orientation, training and feedback sessions using
the provided template. Upload the completed template to Blackboard during Week 10.
The template contains the following information:

Hiring for Soft Skills

Pre- Interview
What soft skills will you highlight in your job descriptions and in your company branding?
Skill 1:
Skill 2: Time Managment
Team Player
Skill 3: Problem Solving Skills
Skill 4: Good Communication
Interview
What questions might you ask potential candidates to uncover the presence or lack of soft skills and/or
discover red flags.
Question 1:
Question 2:
Question 3:
Question 4:
Question 5:
Before the employee starts:
Name four Methods for staying in contact with and helping your new hires develop soft skills during this
period (use full sentences).
Method 1:
Method 2:
Method 3:
Method 4:
Onboarding/Training:
What training methods will you use to help new employees develop the soft skills that are important to
your organization (use full sentences):
Method 1:
Method 2:
Method 3:
Method 4:
Evaluation/Feedback:
What is your plan for evaluating new employees and providing them with regular feedback?
Method(s) (use full sentences):
1)
2)
Etc.
How often will you meet?

What will you cover in these meetings?

How will your employees be assessed?

Continued Training/Assessment
What types of ongoing training in soft skill development/assessment will you provide (use full
sentences)?
Method 1:
Method 2:
Method 3:
Method 4:

References should be included if applicable (APA format suggested)

When you are working on this assignment, consider all that we’ve been discussing in this course so far.
Upload your completed Assignment 3 Template to Blackboard by Sunday midnight of Week 10! Reach
out to your professor with any questions. Good luck!

Assignment 3 Grading Rubric (240 points)

Unsatisfactory Partially Satisfactory Proficient Exceeds

Satisfactory Requirements

0% 50% 75% 95% 100%

 Hiring for Soft Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
Skills complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
20% requirements for for this section.
this section.

Before the Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
Employee complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
Starts the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
requirements for for this section.
15% this section.

Onboarding/Tr Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
aining complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
15% requirements for for this section.
this section.

Evaluation/Fee Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
dback complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
15% requirements for for this section.
this section.

Continued Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
Training/Asses complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
sment the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
requirements for for this section.
15% this section.

References Did not Met some of the Met most of the Met all of the Went above
complete any of requirements for requirements requirements and beyond the
10% the this section. for this section. for this section. requirements
requirements for for this section.
this section.

Clarity, Logic There are There are errors in There are a few There are No errors
and Writing numerous errors terms of clarity, errors in terms minimal errors related to
Mechanics in terms of logic, format and of clarity, logic, in terms of clarity, logic,
clarity, logic, writing. format and clarity, logic, format and
10% format and writing. format and writing.
writing. It's writing
difficult to
understand and
doesn't flow
well.

COURSE DELIVERY
This course will be delivered primarily on Facebook. Upon enrollment, your professor will invite you to join
the Facebook Course Group associated with this course. You will need the Facebook app to access this
course on your mobile device. If you don’t already have it, find the steps to download the Facebook
Mobile App here: https://www.facebook.com/mobile.

There will also be a corresponding Black Board course shell which you will utilize to check your Grades,
Submit Assignments 1 and 3 and complete your weekly High Growth Thinking exercises via the
Blackboard Student App or desktop version. Find the steps to download the Black Board Student App
here: https://help.blackboard.com/Bb_Student/Quick_Start Your professor will also post links in Facebook
to take you directly to these items in the Blackboard Course via the BB Student App.

Microsoft Office Installation

This course requires the use of Microsoft Office. Strayer University provides Microsoft Office (for PC and
Mac) to students at no cost for use on their personal computers. Download instructions are located in
iCampus.