Work role: School teacher

How to researchchosen work role:

1. Conduct an internet search to understand the context and examples of the chosen work role and make notes forfuture reference. Note that oneisnotresearching a specific real-world work role or specific people, but a generic hypothetical work-role.

2. Conduct a literature search to find academic journal articles to identify at least one theoretical concept that will assist in improving the quality of work life of someone in the chosen work role.

3. Identify what the job role typically requires someone in that role to do on an average day

4. Identify what aspects of the job role might motivate people to do such a job (e.g., flexible hours, leadership opportunities, satisfaction from supporting others, high salary, etc)

5. Identify what sort of organisational culture someone in that job role is most likely to experience.

6. Identify what sort of organisational pressures/demands someone in that job role is most likely to face (e.g., time pressures, busy workloads, unscheduled work tasks, etc)

7. Determine one key organisational pressure or demand that could be detrimental to the wellbeing of someone in the chosen job role, and which could beaddressed using concepts/theories discussed in the unit to improve the quality of their work life.

8. Review which concepts/theories discussed in this unit could be used to address the selected organisational pressure/demand;

9. Research academic literature that uses those concepts/theories to identify potential ways to improve the quality of work life for someone in the job role you selected

10. Provide references list