Title: Compare how families affect work life and how work life affects families.
Course: Introduction to Family and Human Services (19001-18) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

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

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How does technology in the workplace affect families?
- What are the advantages of current workplace trends for families?
- What are the advantages of effective time management as it relates to the balance between work and family?
- What are the effects of family stress and/or change on the workplace?

Communication

- How is the importance of work life communicated to family members and the importance of family life communicated to coworkers?
- What communication skills are needed to balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?

Leadership

- What leadership techniques are needed to develop workplace strategies for change? How can the family and the employer develop leadership skills in individuals?
- What leadership techniques influence the effects of family on work and work on family?
- How can leadership skills be integrated into the family and the workplace?
- What forms of technology can help with family communications?

Management

- How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family? Into the workplace?
- What resources can help analyze and manage ways in which families are affected by work life and work is affected by family life?
- What management skills are needed to minimize the effects of family life on work and the effects of work on family life?
- What resources can help determine an individual's values toward work and family?