Virginia's Workplace Readiness Skills

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7. Demonstrate understanding of the “big picture.”

Standard: Demonstration includes

• identifying the company’s mission and the individual employee’s contribution to that mission
  

  Corporate Sight (Lesson Plan)
  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/leadership/main/activities/9-12/act10.html

  Goals and Vision Activities
  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/leadership/appendixa/appa3.html

  Goal-Setting to Increase Productivity
  http://fsweb.bainbridge.edu/techprep/WorkEthicsActivities/prod12.doc

  Researching a Company
  http://www.nald.ca/CLR/Btg/ed/employment/eassign/researching.htm
  http://www.nald.ca/CLR/Btg/ed/employment/emasters/research.htm

  Entrepreneurship: What business am I in? (Lesson Plan on goals and mission statements)
  http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/gtelab/learning_activities/54rolg.html

  Increased Productivity (Lesson Plan)
  http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/gtelab/learning_activities/51poue.html

  Making the Transition from College to the World of Work
  http://www.black-collegian.com/career/transition-199702.shtml

• identifying how the company functions within the broad world of business, industry, and service
  

  Get Ready for the Global Workplace
  http://www.black-collegian.com/career/wsj/getready902.shtml

  Workplace Trends for the 21st Century
  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2664_129/ai_65230202

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Small Business Issues
  http://www.uschamber.com/sb/focus/issues.htm

• explaining the rationale behind organizational policies and procedures
  

  Codes of Ethics Online
  http://ethics.iit.edu/codes

  A Question of Ethics (Lesson Plan)
  http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst189.txt

  Business Laws
  http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-laws-regulations/

  Employment Law Resource Center
  http://www.ahipubs.com/

  Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Lesson Plan)
  http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/civil_rights_act/civil_rights_act.html

  Productivity (Lesson Plan on Reasons for Safety Regulations)
  http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/lsweenie/work_ethics/Vol.%202%20-%20Module%206%20Act.-%20PRODUCTIVITY.doc

  Project Planning and Management Tools
  http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_PPM.htm

  The One Page Business Plan
  http://www.onepagebusinessplan.com/opbp/eight_week.pdf (Curriculum)
  http://www.onepagebusinessplan.com/sample_plans.html (Sample plans)

  The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science – Topical Index
  http://onlineethics.org/index.html

  All About OSHA
  http://www.allaboutosha.com/

  U.S. Department of Labor: Facts on Affirmative Action
  http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/ofccp/aa.htm

• explaining the necessity and benefits/disadvantages of organizational change
  

  Managing Change in Organizations
  http://www.managementhelp.org/org_chng/org_chng.htm

  Managing Conflict and Change
  http://www.kc.cc.il.us/BusinessIndustry/Documents/ManagingConflictandChangePersonalEffectiveness.htm

  Top Ten List for Coping with Change
  http://www.copydesk.org/words/change.htm

  Tips on Staying Ahead in a Changing Workplace
  http://www.iaap-hq.org/ResearchTrends/tips_on_getting_ahead_in_todays_workplace.htm

  Change Inventories
  http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/chinv.html

  Change and Society
  http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/chnsoc.html

  Workplace Flexibility
  http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/lp/spila/wlb/wppp/05workplace_flexibility.shtml

  Bend without Breaking: Are You Flexible Enough? (includes flexibility quiz)
  http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/climbing/20030220-raudsepp.html?cjpos=home_bricks

• explaining basic economic concepts.
  

  Virginia Council on Economic Education
  http://www.vcee.org/

  Econ Ed Link
  www.econedlink.org
  http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm

  History of the Stock Market and Current Company Stock Trends
  http://www.successlink.org/gti/gti_lesson.asp?lid=2616

  Free Enterprise: Business Magazine Project (Lesson Plan)
  http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst225.txt

  Our Economic System (Lesson Plan)
  http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/lpecon.htm

  Island Simulation (Lesson Plan on Economic Concept of Scarcity)
  http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst235.txt