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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI
MARA
AKADEMI PENGAJIAN BAHASA
ELC560-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WRITING
TEST 2 (30%)
JUNE 2020
ANSWER KEY

QUESTION 1

Content: 15 Marks
Language: 10 Marks
Organization: 5 Marks
Total: 30 Marks

CONTENT (15 Marks)

(Please accept suitable alternative answers.)
Content Marks

Introductory statement:
To yield favourable results, apt strategies should be practised by the management 1
to ensure that both the experienced and less experienced employees who engage
in such programme could benefit from it.

Main point 1:
Hence, it is vital for the management of an organisation to judiciously consider the 2
types of mentoring programme that best suit their employees who have diverse
working experience, warranting a smooth transference of workplace knowledge
and skills among them.

Supporting detail:
i. The less experienced employees who lack the technical or hard skills might 1
need a mentoring programme to enable them to succeed in their current roles
and prepare them to assume more advanced responsibilities over time.

ii. Those nearing retirement need to pass on the experience-based knowledge 1

they have acquired over the span of their careers to the midcareer
professionals who ultimately will succeed them.

Main point 2:
Instead of mentoring on a particular field of expertise, a workplace mentoring 2
programme should allow mentees to be mentored on a plethora of soft skills.

Supporting detail:
i. Greater emphasis should be placed on various areas of workplace soft skills 1
which include leadership, strategic thinking and communication skills as well
as techniques to successfully navigate workplace changes and in the handling
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of workplace relationships so that these surviving strategies will benefit the

mentees in almost any organisational roles they might assume in future.

Main point 3:
One of the key features of good mentoring programmes is to demystify this insider 2
knowledge and teach these employees the unwritten rules that do not appear in
any employee handbooks.

Supporting detail:
i. Experienced employees who assume the role of a mentor could offer insights 1
into how the organisation works, serve as role models for operating within the
workplace culture and help mentees forge cross-functional and cross-
generational workplace networks that would otherwise take many years to
develop.

Main point 4:
Every human resource professional in any organisations asserts that the success 2
of a workplace mentoring programme is to frame a structured programme over
unstructured ones.

Supporting detail:
i. A structured mentoring plan provides a framework, agenda, timeline and 1
guidelines for the mentors and mentees to follow.

Concluding statement
Understanding the specific reasons why an organisation would sponsor and 1
encourage mentoring, as well as how those reasons influence the activities and
outcomes, is fundamental to designing a targeted mentoring strategy.

15
TOTAL Marks

LANGUAGE (10 Marks)

EXCELLENT
● Details successfully paraphrased without altering the meaning
9 - 10
● Clearly states important/necessary details using own words or statements

● Contains few, if any grammatical errors

7-8
GOOD

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● Good attempt at paraphrasing

● Some minor lifting from the original text

● Contains a few spelling or grammatical errors

AVERAGE
● Fair attempt at paraphrasing

● Some points are lifted from the original text 5-6

● Contains several errors in punctuation, spelling or grammar that do not
interfere with meaning

POOR
● Weak attempt at paraphrasing

● Statements are mostly lifted from the text 3-4

● Contains many errors in punctuation, spelling and/or grammar

that interfere with meaning.

EXTREMELY POOR
● All points are lifted from the text without any changes to words or
statements
1-2
● Lacks originality

● Serious errors in usage, grammar, or spelling, making the summary

difficult to understand

ORGANISATION (5 Marks)
Excellent 5
Good 4 – 4.5
Average 2 – 3.5
Poor 1 – 1.5

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