BSc Accounting and Finance: Digital Behaviours

This assessment evaluates your ability to identify key skills and behaviours, research ways to develop them and apply them to a specific work-based or study-related situations. You will read the case study of the importance of soft skills at university and in the workplace.

You will write a Skills Development Proposal, focusing on TWO soft skills required in the workplace or at university, and how they are used.

Students are required to complete THREE tasks:

1. Define and explain key soft skills for work and study
2. Discuss why soft skills are important to employees and students
3. Explain how soft skills can be improved

The Learning Outcomes that you have to meet in order to pass this assessment are:

LO 1: Explain the different digital skills and behaviours which can benefit your career

LO 2: Discuss the importance of digital skills, attitudes and behaviours

LO 3: Locate resources to improve digital behaviours at work

Your Digital Behaviours Report should contain the following:

Introduction

You should begin with a brief overview of tasks 1, 2 and 3.

TASK 1: Key soft skills for students and employees

1)      With specific reference to the case study, describe some of the soft skills you need at university and in the workplace

2)      For two of the skills you mentioned in part (1) give an explanatory overview.

You could define the skills, describe related skill sets and identify associated personality traits or habits

3)      Provide example tasks and situations where the two skills you included in part (2) are used by students at university and employees in the workplace

(This task meets LO1)

(Total marks for Task 1: 30 Marks)

TASK 2: Why soft skills are important

1)      Give reasons why the skills that you covered in Task 1 are important for employees and students. You should discuss the benefits of using the skills

2)      Explain how the skills enhance employee performance and student outcomes in specific tasks and situations

You should support this explanation with references to reading resources from this module. You could also include ideas from articles in the online library.

(This task meets LO2)

(Total marks for Task 2: 30 Marks)

TASK 3: Techniques for improving soft skills

1)      Describe at least ONE technique you could use for improving soft skills covered in Task 1

2)      Explain how the techniques would be used in specific tasks or situations you may encounter as a a student or an employee

You should support this task with references to reading resources from this module. You could also include ideas from articles in the online library.

(This task meets LO3)

(Total marks for Task 3: 30 Marks)

Conclusion

You will need to summarise the key points of the assessment tasks.

Structure

Your report should contain the following:

• BPP assignment cover sheet (including SRN and word count)
  • Business report title page
  • Contents page
  • Introduction (200 words)
  • Task 1 – Key soft skills for students and employees (700 words)
  • Task 2 – Why soft skills are important (700 words)
  • Task 3 – Techniques for improving soft skills (700 words)
  • Conclusion (200 words)
  • References (Correct Harvard Referencing applied throughout, including in-text citation and reference list)
  • Assessment Self-Evaluation

*(Total marks for introduction, conclusion and structure: 10 Marks)

Use of evidence in the report

Your report must contain evidence that you have read and understood the theories, models, additional reading and case studies in Digital Behaviours on the Hub.

Which forms of evidence must be in the report

• In-text citations and a bibliography: there must be frequent citations throughout your assignment; they should be supported by a bibliography

• References to the case study: in your assignment there must be references to the case study which can be found in the assessment section on the Hub
• References to additional reading: throughout your assignment there must be frequent references to the articles and videos in the Additional Reading and Videos section, which can be found in the Prepare section of every topic in the Hub