Title: Compare how families affect work life and how work life affects families.
Course: GRADS – Family Focus (19905-36) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

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

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- What effects do technological changes in the workplace have on families?
- What are the benefits and drawbacks of work as it relates to family?
- What are the effects of family stress and/or change on the workplace?

Communication

- How can you communicate the importance of work life to your family and the importance of family life to those in the workplace?
- What communication skills do you need to balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?

Leadership

- What leadership techniques do you need to develop workplace strategies for change?
- How can the family and the employer develop leadership skills in individuals?
- 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 management skills can you use to enhance work from a positive family life and to enhance family life from a positive work life?