Title: (Optional) Analyze the interrelationship of individual and family goals and values to work goals and values.
Course: Life Planning (19257-18) > Section: Developing Career, Community, and Life Connections

Analysis should include

- factors that influence how families coordinate work and family responsibilities and goals
- comparison of individual and family goals and principles
- comparison of traditional and egalitarian beliefs regarding the work and family roles of men and women
- prediction of changes in the ways work and family roles will be managed in the future.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What factors might influence work and family goals and principles?
- How do gender role expectations change on the continuum from traditional to egalitarian?
- How can an individuals’ decision to have a career affect the family?
- How do family values affect the decision to work either as a single-income or as a dual-income family?

Communication

- What is the role of communication in managing work and family responsibilities?
- How can individuals communicate their goals and values about work and family?
- How can communication skills help a family that has trouble balancing work and family responsibilities?

Leadership

- What is the relationship between family members’ incomes and household responsibilities?
- How might technology help balance work and family responsibilities?

Management

- What management skills are essential for achieving and maintaining a balance of work and family roles? How can these management skills be learned?
- How can conflicts between work and family responsibilities be resolved?
- How might the way families manage their work and family roles change in the next 10 years?