Assignment Overview The assignment is to develop a case study that analyses and applies relevant Organizational Behaviour (OB) theory and concepts to a ‘mythical business’. Our Mythical Business: Mythical Business: ‘LodgeMyTrip’ LodgeMyTrip (LMT) is an online open market and a hospitality service, assisting people to lease or rent time being accommodations including vacation rentals, apartment rentals, homestays, or hotel rooms. The company does not possess any lodging; it is simply a trader and takes fraction service fees from both guests and hosts with every reservation taking place. It has over 25,000 lodging listings across Australia and New Zealand as an online showcase (i.e. website and an app) for the visitors within the country as well as from outside the country. The company has a finite central staff of 30 people for business activities like inspection, customer services, online marketing, IT team etc. and the rest, the hosts are so called gig-workers for the company. LMT is a form of collaborative consumption i.e. gig economy. Instead of acquiring and maintaining Hotels and Resort businesses, it is easier to handle the hosts who want to rent their apartment, or a room, or even a house/villa for certain period of time throughout the year. Here hosts are bound to lease their spaces at least 4 weeks a year as per their flexibility and availability. On the other hand, the visitors find number of options available on their fingertip provided ease of booking, payment and cancellations. Instructions: The report should apply four Organizational Behaviour Theories in context of the Mythical Business. Overall analysis of these theories should be integrative and cohesive. Four Organizational Behaviour concepts are:  Employee Motivation and Engagement: Use and Apply Content theories or Process Theories of Motivation to the mythical business.  Job attitudes, Job personality and Job Satisfaction for Gig workers as well as employees.  Decision making and Team management: Apply Rational Decision- Making Model or Bounded rationality Decision making Model, Formulation of team and Model of team effectiveness.  Communication Process Model (i.e. Communication channel, direction of communication and relaying and receiving feedback) The assignment should be written in a neat, professional and engaging manner using report format, meaning that you need to develop coherent, well- supported and logical arguments following a basic report structure with approximately 4000 words (Excluding references and table of content). The final report should include the following information:  Table of contents  List of illustrations and List of tables (if applicable)  Introduction – Include the purpose, scope and outline of the report.  Main body – Use appropriate headings/sub-headings for different sections, and include at least the following information: o Background – Provide an overview of your mythical business. Briefly describe your mythical business (e.g., approximate size, what service or product is provided, where it is located, major competitors, etc.). This section should be relatively short as you will provide further detailed information as you apply OB concepts to aspects of your business. o Analysis and application of OB topics– Apply OB concepts to manage and improve your mythical business. Draw on the guiding questions and suggestions provided in workshops and on LMS. Develop coherent, logical arguments that are supported with relevant academic literature and other high quality evidence. o Use in-text citations throughout your report.  Conclusion – Summarise and integrate your findings. Identify any limitations within your report.  References – Include the full reference information for all sources cited in your report.  Note that this report should not include an executive summary or separate recommendations section. Please do not include these items as they will take unnecessary space away from your main analysis Inclusion of these sections will likely result in a lower overall mark. Research and References Take a scholarly approach and should incorporate relevant organisational behaviour theory and research. Your group is expected to read and use information from a minimum of 15 academic research articles. Academic research articles refer to articles published in academic, peer-reviewed journal articles. The academic research articles should be relevant to the topic, contemporary (i.e., published in the last 5 years) and of high quality (i.e., published in journals ranked by the Australian Business Dean’s Council or Australian Research Council as A*, A, or B). Cite all sources in the main text of the document and include a separate reference page at the end of the document. The in-text citations and references should be formatted using either the current version of the Harvard style or APA 6th edition. It is important to maintain consistency of the reference style you have chosen.