Comparison should include the financial, social, intellectual, emotional, and ethical complexities 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 disadvantages of work as it relates to 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 those in the workplace?
Leadership
- What leadership techniques are used to develop workplace strategies for change? How can the family and the employer develop leadership skills in individuals?
- What leadership techniques can be used to direct or redirect the effects of family on work and work on family?
Management
- How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family? Into the workplace?
- What resources help analyze and manage ways in which families are affected by work life and ways in which work is affected by family life?