Professional Skills for Business and Finance

Professional skills for
business and finance

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
Academic Plagiarism and relevance of academic integrity to professionalism in a business
environment.................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are those skills which describes personality trait, a habit or ability that
favourably affects performance of an individual in its workplace. Within business, professional
skills like leadership, teamwork and problem-solving plays an important role in growing the
career. It also builds relationships at workplace along with improving job performance (Rozkrut,
M. and Rozkrut, D., 2019). This report is related to the plagiarism and academic integrity for
developing the professional skills for business and finance. Plagiarism is the concept of stealing
the matter of others and forming it into own words or thoughts with or without their consent.
Within present report, concept of Academic plagiarism will be discussed along with relevancy of
academic integrity to professionalism in context to business environment.
TASK
Academic Plagiarism and relevance of academic integrity to professionalism in a business
environment
Plagiarism is a process of representing the thoughts or work of someone else, with or
without their consent, in own words or opinion. To avoid plagiarism, it is a best way to employ
and exercise values of good academic practice from starting of the career. It is related to a
process in which credit of other people is taken by someone else while using ideas and work of
original sources. Academic plagiarism is occur when a writer makes a frequent use of more than
four words through a published source without using any quotation symbol or any precise
reference of original source (Coffey, Anyinam and Zitzelsberger, 2018). Repeatedly using
paraphrasing process by not taking it serious with point of view of another person is also a form
of academic plagiarism. Academic plagiarizers takes action in a similar way and are supposed to
make a copy of entire book. It is an unethical process as it is considered as a kind of theft in
which someone's data is stolen by others with or without their consent. At initial stage of
academic learning, a student prefers to make a copy of contents or project of others but it arises
problems in future. In later period, when they will become professionals then at that time they
will face the problems related to concepts and their applications (Sbarba and et.al, 2020).
Because of copying others content they will not be able to clear their own concepts which will
become a major drawback of them. For becoming a better personality or professional, it is very
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