Option: Individuals and Work Flashcards
Key ideas from Option: Individuals and Work
SYLLABUS KNOWLEDGE
Reasons people work
- to meet specific needs
- economic
- value and status
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Patterns of Work
- full-time, part-time, job share, casual
- permanent, temporary/contract
- self-employed
- shift work
- voluntary
- seasonal
- working remotely
- others
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Social factors leading to changing work patterns
- education/training
- technology
- computers
- automation/robotics
- research and development
- employment/unemployment
- perceptions of gender
- family circumstances, including structual change
- government policy
- economics
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Workplace Structures
- legislation (eg workplace health and safety, Equal Employment opportunity)
- work conditions (eg awards, grievance procedures)
- trade unions
- flexible work patterns and practices (eg job share, flexible work arrangements)
- workplace structures (eg childcare, prayer room, kitchen)
- leave entitlements (eg parental, carers)
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Personal commitments and interests
- work
- leadership
- parenting
- caring
- volunteering
- religion
- recreation
- studying
- hobbies
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Individual strategies for managing multiple roles
- negotiating and sharing roles
- managing resources
- using technology
- accessing support
- utilising workplace structures
SYLLABUS KNOWLEDGE
Issues that impact on youth employment
- personal management skills required in the workplace
- steps taken to prepare and plan for a career
- predominant patterns of work of young people
- rights and responsibilities of young people in the workplace
Labour force concepts and terms
The Labour Force
All people who are working or able to work
Labour force concepts and terms
Employed
All persons aged 15 or over who during the working week:
- Worked one hour or more for either direct or indirect payment in a job, business or on a farm
- Worked one hour or more per week without pay in a family business or on a farm
- Were employees who did not work due to being away, on strike or on workers compensation
Labour force concepts and terms
Unemployed
All persons aged 15 or over who were not employed but were actively looking for work or were available for work
Labour force concepts and terms
Employed part time
Those working <35 hours per working week
Labour force concepts and terms
Employed full time
Those working >35 hours per working week
Labour force concepts and terms
Participation rate
The labour force expressed as a percentage of the entire population
