Title: Identify management strategies for balancing work, family, community, and social awareness roles.
Course: Fashion Careers I (19201-I) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

Identification should include strategies related to

- use of time, particularly spending quality time with children
- prioritization of family and work responsibilities
- ways to handle stress of adults and children
- health and safety issues, including sick-child care
- conflict resolution
- family and work values
- stages of the family and career life cycles.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- What is the relationship between the family’s circumstances and work productivity?
- Why is it important to a person, to the family, and to the employer to balance work and family roles?
- What factors should we consider when developing management strategies related to family? To the workplace?
- What responsibility does an employer have for a worker’s well-being at home?
- When is it appropriate for an employer to intervene in an employee’s personal/family life?
- What is the relationship of community activities and responsibilities to work and family roles?
- How do management strategies for balancing work and family roles change as the family progresses through its life cycle?

Communication

- When is it appropriate for an employee to communicate personal/family problems to an employer?
- What communication skills do we need to develop strategies for balancing work and family roles?
- How can we communicate to others the importance of balancing work and family roles?

Leadership

- What leadership techniques can we use to address and resolve conflict regarding work and family roles?
- What skills do family members need to become leaders?
- What criteria should we use to assess our efforts at balancing work and family roles?

Management

- What management skills do we need to set priorities at work and at home?
- What training is needed to develop management strategies for balancing work and family roles?
- What management skills do we need to deal with issues at different stages of the family life cycle?