Comparison should include the financial, social, intellectual, emotional, and ethical complexities involved in work and family roles.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What effects do other workplace trends have on families?
- What are the benefits 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 one communicate the importance of work life to family members and the importance of family life to those in the workplace?
- What communication skills does 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 are needed to be able to 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 resources can help one analyze and manage ways in which families are affected by work life and work is affected by family life?
- What resources can help one determine values toward work and families?