Title: Compare how families affect work life and how work life affects families.
Course: GRADS: Work Focus (19906) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

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

- advantages and disadvantages of having a dual-earner family
- products and services designed or improved in the last five years that relate to the balancing of work and family lives
- predicting changes in the ways that work and family roles will be managed in the future.

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

- What effects do workplace trends and technology advances have on families?
- What are the workplace effects when employees undergo family stress and/or change?
- How do changes in the workplace affect family life?

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 are needed to balance the effects of family life on work? Work life on families?
- How can one learn to discuss emotional issues in a calm way?

Leadership

- What leadership techniques are needed to cope with workplace change?
- How can the family and the employer develop leadership skills in individuals?
- What leadership techniques are needed to direct or redirect the effects of family on work and work on family?

Management

- What resources can help analyze and manage the ways 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?
- How are boundaries useful in family and work settings?