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
• the effect of career choices on parenting decisions
• the effect of parenting decisions on career choices and life goals. 

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 benefits and disadvantages of work as it relates to family?
• What may be the effects of family stress and/or change on the workplace?

Communication

• How can the importance of work life be communicated to family members and the importance of family life be communicated to those in the workplace?
• What communication skills help balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?
• What communication skills used in the workplace are valuable in the family, and vice versa?

Leadership

• What leadership techniques 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 and into the workplace?
• What management skills minimize the effects of family life on work and the effects of work on family life?