Identify how families affect work life and how work life affects families.

Identification should include the financial, social, intellectual, emotional, and ethical issues involved in work and family roles.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

• What effects do technological changes in the workplace have on families?
• What effects do other workplace trends have on families?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of work as it relates to family?
• What are the effects of family stress and/or change on the workplace?
• What effects might family life have on the financial issues of work? Social issues? Intellectual issues? Ethical issues?

Communication

• How can we communicate the importance of work life to family members and the importance of family life to those in the workplace?
• What communication skills do we need to balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?

Leadership

• What leadership techniques do we need to develop workplace strategies for change?
• How can the family and the employer develop leadership skills in individuals?
• What leadership techniques can help direct or redirect the effects of family on work and work on family?
• How can leadership skills be integrated into the family and the workplace?

Management

• How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family? Into the workplace?
• What management skills do we need to minimize the effects of family life on work and the effects of work on family life?
• What resources can help us determine our values toward work and families?