Title: Identify work roles and family roles.
Course: Family Relations (19259-36) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

Identification should include

- evaluating work and family systems
- assessing the characteristics of strong work and family organizations
- examining the evolution of the workforce
- identifying the rewards of work within and outside the family
- describing the responsibilities of employees and family members
- determining the effects of family interdependence
- evaluating how the family life cycle affects choices and decisions
- examining personal and family values.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How are the roles and responsibilities of employed workers and family members alike, and how are they different?
- How is the role of management in the workplace like or unlike the role of management in the family?

Communication

- How can the workplace be respectful of the family and individuals?
- How can family members at different stages of the family life cycle communicate with one another?

Leadership

- How can leadership skills be integrated into the family and the workplace?
- How can different leadership skills be applied to everyday life? Work? Family?
- What are the consequences if family and work are in conflict?

Management

- How can we develop a life plan that reflects our values?
- How can an individual’s management skills be integrated into the family? Into the workplace?
- What resources can help us determine our work and family values?