Academic and Employability Skills - Task 1 and Task 2

This article discusses the importance of academic and employability skills in career development. It focuses on two tasks - the first one is about the most effective ways to motivate staff, and the second one is a reflective report. The article explores different motivation theories, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Vroom's expectancy theory, Hertzberg's two-factor theory, and McClelland's theory of needs. It also discusses the role of leaders in motivating employees and the different leadership styles that can be used.

Academic and Employability
Skills
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
‘What is the most effective way to motivate staff?’....................................................................2
Motivation theories......................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are those skills which are used in order to develop learning capacity within
individual in relation to professional and education improvement. These skills help upon creating
stability regarding educational learning of an individual. The skills hold responsibility by making
sure that academic integrity is achieved by an individual. Employability skills means those set of
skills which are based upon employee’s perspective working in an organization. It is based over
those perspective helping an organization to achieve tasks and goals. This makes all technical
perspective understood regarding employee’s development while working in an organization.
Both academic and employability skills are important for students making competitive advantage
achieved within career development. It is important for a learner in academic life to develop
professional skills in order to grow at faster pace in the marketplace. Also these skills make
knowledge attained about various kinds perspectives which are covered while working within an
organization. Scope of these skills are wider as they directly impact employee’s sustainability
within an organization. In this file there are two task requires to be done, as per task one is based
upon motivating staff in best manner possible. In second part reflective report is required to be
written.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
‘What is the most effective way to motivate staff?’.
Motivation is one of the most important part of an organization which helps upon making
development of various process done more effectively (Mantzourani, Canedo and Fleming,
2021). Motivation is based over various perspectives which develop tendencies within
employees leading towards improvisation in their working patterns. It means process that is
based over initiating guidance and maintenance helping in making goals oriented approach
developed within employee working for particular organization. Motivation makes employees
achieve sustainability with growth by maintaining quality within the work of an individual
related to organizations task accomplishment process. Motivation refer upon factors which
mainly impacts behavioural patterns of an employee which makes direct action to be taken in
relation over task accomplishment. In terms of employee’s motivation there are two ideas which
are covered like extrinsic motivation which take rise from outside of an employee and include
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rewards such as trophies, money, social recognition, or praise. Then comes intrinsic motivation
which relates with inner perspective of an employee based over developing conflict solving
techniques within them. These motivations can be beneficial towards all over growth and
development of employee while working in an organization. There are different ways within
which motivation is used by an organization. It serves for guiding force towards human
behaviour which can impacted in different manner. Motivation covers important aspect in
relation to employment. These perspectives in relation to motivation has been discussed as
follows:
 Help improve the efficiency of people as they work toward goals
 Help people take action within critical situation.
 Encourage people to engage in health-oriented behaviours
 Help people avoid unhealthy or maladaptive behaviours such as risk-taking and
addiction
 Help people feel more in control of their lives
 Improve overall well-being and happiness of an employee.
Motivation has deep impact over an organization making immediate realization done
over simply accomplishing goals and objectives set by an organization (Pugh and Broome,
2020). The goals are achieved with desired outcomes due to the impact. This makes endurance
developed in employees and making difficulties achieved more effectively. There are three major
components motivation which are activation, persistence and intensity which are discussed as
follows:
 Activation includes decisions in order to initiate behaviour and covering various
perspective within making motivation build. It makes motivation to be achieved with
more effectiveness making organization initiate motivation.
 Persistence it is based over making goals and obstacles removed by improving
psychological condition within an organization helping in making time, energy, and
resources managed by employees. This leads towards motivation achieved more
effectively.
 Intensity can be seen in the concentration and vigor that goes into pursuing a goal. For
example, one student might coast by without much effort, while another student will
study regularly, participate in discussions, and take advantage of research opportunities
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outside of class. The first student lacks intensity, while the second pursues their
educational goals with greater intensity.
These perspectives help motivation for developing better and effective perspective within an
organization making organizations growth performed more effectively. It leads upon motivating
employees with positive approach. In an organization leader holds responsibility of motivating
employees within organization. Leaders are able to improve employee’s productivity by
providing them allowance and rewards within an organization. Motivational leader able to
enhance team with passion and enthusiasm. This makes an employees feel motivate by investing
within learning about their strength and needs. Motivated leaders are able to recognize about
value of working hard encouraging employees by making goals and challenges accepted. A
motivational leader is positive and recognizes the achievements of their team. Motivational
leaders know how to develop and effectively use their employees’ talents and skills (Sergeeva,
2019). Employees feel invested in their work, appreciated and empowered, ultimately leading to
higher productivity and engagement. Leaders are able to work upon value respected by being
consistence, ethical and genuine which makes more trust to be achieved from employee’s
perspective. It helps upon making more effective form of leadership helping upon making task
and goals achieved by an organization. Leaders are able to connect with employee and
understand strength with positive approach. Motivated leaders except more from their employees
and teams for which they moderate actions of team making various perspectives achieved while
working in an organization. Motivational leaders make decisions which allow decisions to be
taken for grabbing opportunity in respect of team. Motivational leader communicates with
consistency and tactics which clearly covers employees and staff. Through effective decision
making more and more perspectives of motivation is covered making motivation applied with
appropriate strategies within employees. Motivational leaders see the future and they know how
to get there. They articulate their vision passionately and clearly. Employees not only understand
how they can contribute but how important they are to a team’s success. Thus leaders are able to
motivate employees more effectively.
Motivation theories
The theory of motivation states that motivation and spirit level of employees within an
organization helping in making desired goals and objectives achieved more effectively. This is
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important for employees as it increases motivational level by covering positive perspective in
terms of managing motivational level. The employees within an organization is able to achieve
target with more effectiveness. These theories make organization motivated of employees by
keeping in mind key elements helping in profit generation. Such theories have been discussed as
follows:
Maslow's Theory of hierarchical needs:
As per the motivational theory it has been marked out that of a person is able to satisfy
needs and wants of person by making motivation provided with dedication. The basic needs of
employees are safety needs, Belongingness and love needs, physiological needs, self-esteem
needs and self-actualization needs which make an individual satisfied over surviving within an
organization. Further, needs are discussed as follows:
 Physiological need – These are based over those needs provided to an individual like
food, water and shelter (Vázquez-Calatayud, Errasti-Ibarrondo and Choperena, 2021).
The needs ate important for basic survival of an individual. This is used by an
organization over such needs helping in boasting moral of employees by providing them
basic facilities. Safety need – As physiological needs of employees are satisfied they focus upon meeting
with safety needs which is based over security, protection, freedom from fear etc. It is
important for an organization to provide safety in order to work within an organization
more effectively. Social need – Social needs relates with love and belongingness of family and friends.
This is important for an organization as it helps in developing better relationship of an
organization within employer and employee. Each and every person requires to fill social
needs by developing better and effective relationship within society. Esteem need –These needs involves with dignity, achievement status of a person. Self-
esteem needs of employees should be filled with making motivation encouraged of
employees. In relation to respective organization great work of employees are recognized
with great work of employees helping upon satisfying estimated needs.
 Self actualization need – This is last need of Maslow theory which makes personal
growth and development achieved by fulfilling self needs making personal goals
achieved more effectively.
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Advantages – There are several benefits that could be achieved by Jack store by applying
Maslow need theory. This theory will help in meeting with needs of employees as well as
develop better relationship in organisation.
Limitations – The major issue with this theory is that it is not applicable for all
individual as different person have different needs. It is very difficult for this Jack store to meet
with the needs of all employees.
Vroom’s Theory of Expectancy:
This theory affects individual employees motivating an organization for having future
impact created within market. The theory if based over motivation and includes certain elements
which has been discussed as follows:
Expectancy: The employee’s making needs of resources completed by doing any kind of task
requires to be performed within an organization von (Suchodoletz, Jamil, and Hamre, 2018).
The management requires to manage time of employee related over working and breaking hours
suitable and employee happy over working with more potential. The skills of employees have
duties to assign over work done effectively.
Instrumentality: This is stated that belief employees over performance over good organization
then employee getting something over perspective like rewards, promotion, etc. Organization
requires to trust employee’s decision giving employees motivation over performance of task with
reward points helping in making high motivation accomplished.
Valence: This theory of motivation sate that in an organization over some employees which is
satisfied over entering more money and some employees create satisfaction with work over
managing an organization with better preferences.
Hertzberg's theory:
This theory contains two broad factors which hygienic factors and second making factors
motivated. In hygiene factors and second is to motivate factors also hygiene factors provide with
good working condition giving time with bonding of workers. Also policies and rule develop by
management of organization heling employees to push levels of motivation for making sure
employees feel comfortable and motivate for achieving target within an organization.
McClelland's theory of needs:
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This theory of states that three kinds of motivation helps employees upon grooming
themselves making development become more responsible for performing in sincere motivation.
McClelland's theory of motivator’s element is discussed as follows:
Achievements: These employees grand all new opportunities over upcoming in an organization
helping upon improving skills and knowledge over performing task more effective way.
Affiliation: This organization makes employees not feel comfortable over talking employee
which makes fears of conflicts upon managing of an organization helping employees making feel
comfortable with everyone. This makes events to be conducted events while gathering talk with
each other helping an organization in achieving goals and objectives more effectively. This
makes employees increase efficiency within them.
Power: The employee need to control own work or need to control other works. The high need
power of employee, have ability to influence other in high need situation when occur in
organisation (Weiss, Kennell and Mininni, 2021). This influencing power of employee helps
other employee to perform work effectively.
There is various important perspective which helps upon motivating employees present
within an organization. They have been discussed as follows:
Setting goals: This is an important part as it helps employees work towards perfection making
goals and objectives achieved more effectively. It is helpful in making employees work with
more effectiveness.
Reward system: The system is based over developing various kinds of aspects which is based
upon providing bonus to employees, increasing their salary and making employees work with
more effectiveness.
TASK 2
Reflection
The above perspective is based over motivation which has helped in making understanding
developed about motivation making employees handle various things in relation to working of an
organization. I have learned that motivation is an important perspective leading upon making
employees work with positive approach towards an organization. Also motivation makes an
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employee cover different perspective which is based upon making employees feel safe within an
organization. I have analysed that motivation makes an organization deal with aspects effecting
working of an organization in terms of both internal and external factors as they affect business.
Through motivation an employee is able to work in right direction towards organizations growth.
In order to make sure that more authentic information is attained over impact of motivation on
employees making organizations development possible more effectively. Motivational theories
have been explained within the above task which has helped in making an organization attain
more effective structure of an organization. These theories make motivation achieved more
effectively making work done more effectively and attain stability within an organization.
Motivation has important role to play within organization leads towards improving within
employee’s performance making set objectives of an organization achieved. An organization
needs motivation of its employees helping over improving productivity and profitability of an
organization. Motivation theories are based over forming framework helping an organization for
motivating them. There are various kinds of theories making motivation of employees done more
effectively and efficiently. In this respective organizations using these theories are able to attain
strong and effective relation with its employees. Then organizational theory makes an
organizations employees attain knowledge about them expertize. The theory has been classified
within two major like content theories and process theories. Further in content theory of
motivation includes Maslow's needs hierarchy, ERG theory and Herzberg's two factor theory
with various others. Then comes process theories consist of Victor Vroom's expectancy,
skinner's reinforcement theory and Adam's equality theory. These theories make development of
motivation done within employees. Motivation is provided by leaders of an organization through
different leadership style that possess different nature. Leader have important roles as they work
upon employees up liftmen that makes positive approach developed for an organization making
its vision and mission achieved without any problem. This makes work completed with
enthusiasm. This is considered as one of the most important and famous cycle model regarding
reflection helping over exploring and experience. The model is based over six stage that helps
upon determining about challenges faced. This is an vital component that permits for ability
appraisal, that is vital for me to enhance my persona extra effectively. These abilities have a huge
variety of applications, that is a mirrored image of my success. While carrying out studies on
verbal exchange abilities, logical abilities, management abilities, and teamwork abilities, I
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determined quite a few transferrable competencies. These abilities have aided within side the
improvement of my persona via studying. In my life, I additionally area a robust emphasis on
private and expert profession improvement. As a result, the subsequent is a brief review of the
usefulness of those competencies in my life. Communication abilities permit me to have
interaction in quite a few interactions with quite a few individuals, permitting me to expand
course in each my expert and educational lives. The cap potential has aided in powerful status
quo of a wholesome dating with every other individual. By influencing employees, it helped me
grow to be a extra powerful speaker. These abilities helped me set up rationality in my task via
way of means of permitting me to expand resourceful running routines. Also, I can enhance my
evaluation via way of means of including good judgment to it, and I can boom my teamwork
abilities via way of means of growing variety in myself, which permits me to paintings with no
trouble with my co-workers. In addition, I am capable of set up a great quantity of group spirit
due to this. I need to expand quite a few competencies with a purpose to advantage a higher
know-how of each private and expert life. I carried out studies into several goals and desires that
I had mounted for myself. Time control abilities, interpersonal abilities, management abilities,
and control abilities are the various abilities I'd like to enhance. This is a critical detail of an
individual's existence, and getting to know need to be cultivated with the aim of enhancing the
individual. As a result, it's miles important to broaden a getting to know mind-set that aids in
reaching extra results. Individuals with a getting to know mindset are greater capin a position to
triumph over horrific components in their lives. This mind-set performs a critical component in
making sure that new components of private getting to know are learned. Success has been
produced in my expert existence because of such improvement with the aid of using constructing
a never-stooping system of getting to know and understanding upgrading. These competencies
have a broader scope on account that they awareness on instructional integrity, which enables
college students discover ways to practice it of their private lives. It has aided in converting my
wondering in a advantageous direction, permitting me to paintings with extra interest and
motivation. A man or woman with a getting to know mind-set, consisting of me, can also
additionally remedy a hassle with the aid of using combining numerous components. I've end up
greater engaged to my paintings on account that coordination enables me awareness at the
obligations I want to do. My expert profession has been fashioned well withinside the early
levels of my existence thru private getting to know and improvement. Personal development and
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getting to know are usually at the leading edge of my thinking. When I became in school, I
participated in a whole lot of sports that allowed me to develop mentally and socially. As a
result, my verbal exchange and talking competencies have multiplied significantly. Then I went
to university and took part in lots of curricular sports that helped me construct a sensible mind-
set even as additionally permitting me to develop physically. As a result, I advanced several
characteristics that aided me in my running existence. Attending several of my organization's
workshops and education programmers aided me in growing a private getting to know and
improvement approach. It additionally gave a variety of price to my resume through making it
appearance greater appealing in nature, which helped me advantage greater enjoy in my job.
Also through Gibb’s Reflective Cycle the challenges regarding report formation has been
discussed as follows:
 Description:- the above report is based upon motivation which is an important part of an
organization. It has made enhancement done by providing information over the topic
more effectively. This has removed barriers faced while writing the project and makes
project done in smooth manner(Yu, 2018).
 Feelings:- This has been helping by making understanding developed about real
objective in relation to writing the project over motivation. It has helped in making
employees feel more motivated towards working within an organization.
 Evaluation: This is base over making determination provided by understanding
motivational theories making reports attain more effectiveness. Through motivation an
employee is able to work more effectively. The evaluation made work concluded in
effective manner.
 Analysis: From this discussion it can be concluded that SEO tools has helped in
providing personal and professional growth. I am required to make innovation done with
physical fitness and understanding about sport helping in determining about creating
blogs upon delivering good message to an individual by improving over assisting and
improving motivational structure of an organization.
 Conclusion: In this needs of physical fitness and blog development has helped upon
managing various activities related to report. In this fitness is important for smooth
making of blogs helping in decreasing negative aspects of an organization.
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 Action plan: In order to improve my physical fitness, focus has been paid by me on
working hard to have command over my several sports activities. Part has been
taken by me in training in order to have confidence over my physical growth and
sports endurance. Also through action plan various aspects related to
motivational development has been covered.
Skill/Score 1 2 3 4 5
Organisation of job advertisement 3
Working as a team 5
Public speaking 4
Professionalism 3
Total score = 15
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Strongest skill
Working as team
Skill which requires development Organisation of job
advertisement
Professionalism

Date of event What was the
development
activity?
What was I
expecting to
learn?
What have I
learned?
How will I
apply this
learning?
17/08/22 Seminar Organisation
of job
advertisement
About
organizing job
advertisment
To manage
the
employees
in
organizatio
n
15/08/22 Workshop Professionalis
m
Professional
code of conduct
To become
manager of
the
organizatio
n.
20/12/22 Seminar Time
management
skills
How to develop
effective time
table
To manage
time
between
personal
and
profession
al life
What do I
want to learn?
What support
and resources
will I need?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure success?
Target date for
review?
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Time
management
skills
Mentor and
execution skills
Need to develop
effective time
table
To evaluate the
satisfaction of other
stakeholders of life
15/08/22
Interpersonal
skills
Proper training
and guidance Need to make
efforts and
By a way
interacting with
other persons
20/07/22
Leadership
skills
Seminars and
workshops
Need to perform
well to lead
people
By a way of
followers
satisfaction
15/12/22
CONCLUSION
Academic abilities are the ones abilities which can be used that allows you to expand
studying capability inside person on the subject of expert and schooling improvement. These
abilities assist upon developing balance concerning instructional studying of an person. The
abilities keep duty via way of means of ensuring that educational integrity is finished via way of
means of an person. Employability abilities way the ones set of abilities which can be primarily
based totally upon employee’s attitude running in an organisation. It is primarily based totally
over the ones attitude supporting an organisation to acquire responsibilities and goals. This
makes all technical attitude understood concerning employee’s improvement whilst running in
an organisation. Both educational and employability abilities are critical for college students
making aggressive benefit finished inside profession improvement. It is critical for a learner in
educational lifestyles to expand expert abilities that allows you to develop at quicker tempo
within side the marketplace. Also those abilities make know-how attained approximately diverse
sorts views which can be included whilst running inside an organisation. Scope of those abilties
is wider as they at once effect employee’s sustainability inside an organisation. In this document
there are project calls for to be done, as consistent with project one is primarily based totally
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upon motivating body of workers in satisfactory way possible. In second component reflective
record is needed to be written.
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