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Changing Work Patterns

Changing Work Patterns. Investigate the history of the work done by your family members. Try and go back as many years as possible to find out the types of employment they undertook and how many different jobs they had. Present your findings as a family tree. Introductory Activity.

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Changing Work Patterns

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  1. Changing Work Patterns

  2. Investigate the history of the work done by your family members. Try and go back as many years as possible to find out the types of employment they undertook and how many different jobs they had. • Present your findings as a family tree. Introductory Activity

  3. Traditional work patterns are changing rapidly. • Change in work patterns have arisen due to: • The need to reduce labour costs • The need to improve productivity • Businesses aim to meet objectives by: • Outsourcing labour • Employing small full time staff, increasing casual and part time staff to meet demands during busy periods • Implementing flexible working hours (direct result of improvements in telecommunications) Drivers of change

  4. Examine the differences between past and present employment issues on page 105 – 106 of the text. • Explain the changes in the three pictured. Activity

  5. Activity

  6. Demographic Changes Technological changes Casualisation of the workforce

  7. Women make up 45% of workforce • The current participation rate 65.6% • Women attracted to workforce by increase in casual and part-time employment opportunities • ‘Family friendly’ workplaces – motivate and retain staff • Ageing society could see increase in retirement age Demographic Changes

  8. Casual workers make up 25% of labour force • Popular in retail and hospitality industries • Most popular among 15 – 24 year olds (see next slide) • No long term job security • Casuals can be exploited Casualisation of the workforce

  9. Casualisation of the workforce

  10. Working from home • Decline in manufacturing industry • Increases in service and information technology industries • Ongoing training needed • New jobs created as old jobs become obsolete Technological changes

  11. Employment Stereotypes

  12. A stereotype is an often oversimplified or biased mental picture held to characterise the typical individual of a group. • What workplace stereotypes exist in society today?

  13. Using your first impression, indicate beside each adjective below which sex the word best describes. Use M for Male, F for Female, and B for Both only if the word immediately brings to mind both men and women. Be honest and record your very first response! Stimulus exercise

  14. Glancing over your responses, notice the number of M's, F's, and B's. Most people get a good mix of all three. Looking at the list of adjectives, is there any one word that could not describe either sex? If not, then all the M's and F's recorded indicate subconscious (and sometimes not so subconscious) stereotypical beliefs. • Keep in mind that simply believing that some of these descriptions are gender-based is not wrong, nor a "bad" thing to do. Stereotypes, after all, develop from observed behavioural generalities. Stimulus exercise

  15. Brainstorm the individual and social impacts of increased participation by females in the workforce. • Read the article ‘Beware of Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace’ and outline the strategy suggested when dealing with workplace stereotypes. • Briefly outline the purpose of the Anti-discrimination Act (NSW) Activities (complete in workbook)

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