This assessment item is worth 50% of your overall grade, and is designed for you to: • develop an awareness of and focus on evidence based management • describe a theory and apply it to an organisational behaviour in order to provide insightful recommendations • develop recommendations (hopefully empirically validated) on how the organisational situation/behaviour could be improved • reflect upon what you have learnt from applying a theory to a work situation/experience and how this learning has informed the way you will behave in the future You are required to write case analysis that demonstrates your knowledge and understanding of a core theory from the unit. You have a choice of three (3) theories - only choose one (1) of the following: 1. Job Characteristic Model (Lecture 7 + pg 185-186 in the textbook) 2. Job Embeddedness Theory (Lecture 8 + CMD Readings) 3. Path-Goal Theory of Leadership (Lecture 9 + pgs 387-389 in the textbook) You will need to recall, describe and analyse an example from your own working life, and use one of the above theories to explain how and why the theory has something to offer in terms of providing constructive advice for more effective organisational behaviour in the future. Remember, this case analysis is about demonstrating your understanding of the theory you choose to write about, so it is critical that you think carefully about a work situation or experience, and what sorts of insights each of the theories could offer to improve organisational effectiveness in the future. You are also required to reflect upon YOUR learning from undertaking the task. In a separate section following your Conclusions and Recommendations, reflect on not only WHAT you learnt from applying your chosen theory to a work situation/experience but HOW the process of undertaking the task helped you to consolidate, modify or adapt professional behaviours and HOW this learning will inform YOUR professional practice in the future. It is up to you to decide what experience and what theory you will use, but it is useful to discuss your ideas with your tutor early in the semester to make sure you are giving yourself the best chance of success in this assessment item. Format: This case analysis is a mixture of critical analysis and reflection, and requires you to first review a theory (i.e. a literature review), apply the theory to gain insight into a personal work example (show how the theory fits with a work situation or experience and explains what happened), and then provide recommendations based on the theory on how to improve the situation or experience described in your example, and also reflect upon what you learnt and how this learning will inform your own professional practice.