Career and Financial Management

1. Career and Financial Management Reasons for Work

2. Objectives • List reasons why people work. • Identify sources of job dissatisfaction and list techniques for improving job satisfaction. • Examine workplace stereotypes and gender stereotypes.

3. Why People Work • Pay for wants and needs • Be around others • Make a contribution • Self-Fulfillment

4. Why People Work • Pay for wants and needs • Housing • Food • Clothes • Recreation • Other

6. Why People Work • Be around others • Enjoy being in an environment with people who have similar interests • Make a contribution • Positively affecting the world can inspire you to work

7. Why People Work • Self-Fulfillment • Feelings of accomplishment and self-respect • Valued when others depend on work • Helps build confidence

8. Global Connection • Why People Work • Survival • Inherit parent’s work • Parents choose work • Prestige

9. The Bottom Line Pay for wants and needs Be around others Why do people work? Make a contribution Self-Fulfillment

10. Satisfaction & Self-Esteem • Job Satisfaction • How content a person is doing their job • Doing a job well build self-esteem • Confidence a person has in themselves • Feeling of accomplishment

11. Income vs. Satisfaction • Many people measure success in terms of satisfaction, not income • Take pride in helping others • Feel accomplished • E.g.: Mother Teresa • Did she value income or satisfaction more?

12. Losing Job Satisfaction • Conflict with other employees • Not being paid appropriately • Education, skills, or interests not being utilized • Lack of opportunities • Work that becomes boring or overly routine

13. Losing Job Satisfaction • Fear of losing your job • Having no voice in the company • Not having the necessary resources to succeed

14. Improving Job Satisfaction • Set new challenges • Improve your job skills • Develop your own project • Mentor a co-worker • Fight career fatigue • Break up the monotony • Cross-train • Volunteer for something different

15. Improving Job Satisfaction • Have a great attitude • Stop negative thoughts • Put things in perspective • Look for the silver lining • Be grateful

16. The Bottom Line Job Dissatisfaction Job Satisfaction

17. What Do You Do? • DOCTOR • Rich • Smart • Hard working • Cares about the health of others

18. What Do You Do? • GRADE-SCHOOL TEACHER • Kind • Caring • Interested in helping others learn

19. Stereotypes • Stereotype: general belief about a person or group of people that is not necessarily true • “All basketball players are tall” • Stereotypes on television and in movies • Facts vs. stereotypes

20. Types of Stereotypes Race Gender Religion Ethnicity Politics Ideologies

21. Gender & Work Stereotypes • What jobs are intended for men? Women? • Gender Stereotyping • Today almost every career is open to both men and women

22. Overcoming Stereotypes • Examine why the stereotype exists • Evaluate why the stereotype is persistent • Encourage acceptance of differences • Think outside the box • Check own ideas

23. The Bottom Line Stereotypes Types Relevance Overcoming