You are to get a case study from HRM Journals or Text Books.

analysis in the organisational analytic area. The work will comprise the analysis of a single, real organizational situation either from your own experience or from secondary sources like books, learned journals, corporate documentation, newspapers, internet, film or TV programme. You may also select for analysis an appropriate case from a textbook, providing that the case is not one which we have already covered in OA class or which has been covered in another class on your course. Just because a case study appears in an a textbook does not make it a good OA case to analyse, you may like to check with your tutor.

(i) Finding your situation. It needs to be of sufficient complexity to allow for an in-depth (but not overlong) analysis. Something which is a problem or an opportunity might be a reasonable start.

(ii) Describing your situation. Enough to orientate the reader; not so much as to bore him or her with excessive (and non mark-earning) detail.

(iii) Examining the situation with the aid of suitable concepts, models, perspectives or theories from the literature, and showing what insights are gained thereby.

(iv) Explaining the past and/or present and/or future course of events on the basis of your analysis. In other words, showing what has been gained by it. Has it enabled you to go beyond the obvious? Are there indications of further directions for investigation, perhaps beyond the scope of your analysis?

(v) Making modest suggestions/recommendations for action. This is more optional than the other elements. Some case studies lend themselves to recommendations others more the dissection of a problem and its conceptualisation.

(vi ) Giving your work a title. What has it all been about? Your title should tell us.