Building Strong Families – Working Overhead #1
What Do
Workers Want?
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Open communication (65%)
Effects on family (60%)
Nature of work (59%)
Management quality (59%)
Supervisor (58%)
Control over content (55%)
Gain new skills (55%)
Job security (54%)
Co-worker quality (53%)
Job location (50%)
Stimulating work (50%)
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Building Strong Families – Working Overhead #2
Why Do We
Like Working?
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Work itself (32%)
People at work (23%)
Money (12%)
Hours (7%)
Benefits (6%)
Boss (3%)
Other (17%)
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Building Strong Families – Working Overhead #3
What Do
Employers Expect?
Workplace Competencies
Resources
Identifies, organizes, plans, and
allocates
Interpersonal
Works with others
Information
Acquires and uses
Systems
Understands complex
interrelationships
Technology
Works with a variety
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Building Strong Families – Working Overhead #4
What Do
Employers Expect?
Foundation Skills
Basic skills
Reads, writes, performs math
operations, listens, speaks
Thinking skills
Creatively makes decisions,
solves problems, visualizes,
knows how to learn, reasons
Personal qualities
Responsibility, self-esteem,
sociability, self-management,
integrity, honesty
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