Compare how families affect work life and how work life affects families.
Comparison should include the financial, social, intellectual, emotional, and ethical issues involved in work and family roles, as well as the challenges presented by such issues.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What effects do changes in technology have on individuals in the workplace and the family unit as a whole?
- How does telecommuting affect workplace trends and families?
- What are the benefits of work as it relates to family? Disadvantages?
- What are the effects of family on the workplace?
- What effects might family life have on the financial issues of work? Social issues? Intellectual issues? Ethical issues?
Communication
- How can the importance of work life to family members and the importance of family life to those in the workplace be communicated?
- What communication skills are needed to balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?
Leadership
- What leadership skills are needed to develop workplace strategies for change?
- How can the family develop leadership skills in individuals?
- What leadership skills are needed to be able to direct or redirect the effects of family on work? Work on family?
- How can leadership skills be implemented into the family? The workplace?
Management
- How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family? Into the workplace?
- What resources can help to analyze and manage ways in which families are affected by work life? What resources can help to analyze and manage ways in which work is affected by family life?
- What management skills are needed to minimize the effects of family life on work? What management skills are needed to minimize the effects of work on family life?
- What resources are available to help manage financial concerns that affect the family structure?