Unit I:The Workplace

Name: ________________________________________________________ Period: _______

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Vocabulary:WorkforceComparable worthAffirmative ActionWagesEquilibrium wageLiving wageMinimum wage

What are the ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES of workers?

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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Unemployment Frictional unemploymentStructural unemploymentCyclical unemploymentSeasonal unemploymentFull employmentUnderemployed

Unit I Main Ideas:

1. How are wages determined? 2. Is minimum wage a living wage?3. How is our unemployment rate (U3) not representative of our real unemployment?4. How have labor unions impacted our labor force and working lives?

Labor unionStrikeClosed shopUnion shopRight to work lawsCollective bargainingBinding arbitration

Women Teenagers

Elderly

MinoritiesImmigrants

What does our workforce look like and how do different groups fit in?

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What is Comparable Worth?

Affirmative Action:

SALARY WAGES

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Why was it needed? What is it? What are the problems today?

THE LABOR MARKET: Read the sections Demand for Labor and Supply of Labor on p. 258-260. Explain the following:

What is Demand for Labor?

What is Supply of Labor?

How are wages determined?

Draw the graph:

What is minimum wage?

What is living wage?

Is minimum wage a living wage?

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UNEMPLOYMENTThe Unemployment Rate:

1. What two qualifications must a person have to considered unemployed? (16+ years old)

a. __________________________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________________________

2. Are people who have given up looking for work considered unemployed? ______________

3. Are people who work part – time considered unemployed? ________________

FORMULA: Unemployment Rate = number unemployed U.S. labor force

*To be included in the labor force you must be considered employed or unemployed!*

4. What is the approximate number of people in the U.S. labor force? ____________________*Considering our population is well over 250 million people, they make a lot of them disappear!*

5. Type of Unemployment:

a. How do people become frictionally unemployed?

__________________________________________________________________________________

b. How do people become structurally unemployed?

__________________________________________________________________________________

c. What is cyclical unemployment?

__________________________________________________________________________________

d. What is seasonal unemployment?

__________________________________________________________________________________

e. What is meant by full employment?

__________________________________________________________________________________

f. What is meant by underemployed?

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Read the following (5) scenarios, putting a "U" next to each one you think describes someone who is UNEMPLOYED.

1) Jim is a sixty-five-year-old man who retired after forty years of working at IBM. He's looking for a part-time job at a bookstore to keep himself busy.

2) Laura is a forty-year-old investment banker who was laid off six months ago. She decided to switch careers and has spent those six months figuring out what she wants to do next instead of applying for jobs in the banking field.

3) Tom is a thirty-year-old accountant who quit his job so he could go to business school.

4) Molly is a thirty-six-year-old mother of three who works part-time as a tutor.

5) Mike is a fifty-year-old father of two who has been working part-time while raising his kids. He has been looking for full-time work without success for over a year.

Undercounting Unemployment

As you watch the "Undercounting Unemployment" video, look for the U3, U4, U5 and U6 unemployment numbers. In the "Who's Counted" column next to each U number, write the people who are included in that report. In the third column, record the percentages that were reported for each U number in June 2009. Finally, if there's something else that catches your eye about a certain report or a population that's included or excluded, jot it down in the far right column.

Government Unemployment Report Number Who's Counted

Percent/Rate Reported for June 2009

Anything Else Interesting?

U3

U4

U5

U6

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1. Which U number(s) include Ebony Allen? Which population of "unemployed" people does she belong to?

2. How many households were surveyed by the Labor Department to create the June 2009 unemployment reports?

Directions: For each of the following, indicated whether the group would be classified as Employed (E), Unemployed (U), or not counted (NC).

1. West Seneca has a population of 23,000. Of that 23,000:________ a. 9,300 work as paid employees.________ b. 3,200 are unemployed, but are looking for work.________ c. 2,500 are unemployed and have given up looking for work.________ d. 187 are retired and go fishing daily.

________ 1. How many people would be included in the workforce?________ 2. What is the unemployment rate for the town?________ 3. How many people from above would be considered discouraged workers?

2. Niagara County has a population of 1,800,000. Of that:________ a. 80,000 are retired and are not looking for work.________ b. 640,000 work as paid employees.________ c. 37,500 are laid off and are waiting to be called back to work.________ d. 75,000 are unemployed and have given up looking for work in the area.

________ 1. How many people make up the workforce?________ 2. What is the unemployment rate for the county?

3. Many members of the Senior Class at Hamburg High School are now employed. Of the kids in the class:________ a. 15 have recently applied for a job and have not been hired.________ b. 150 are employed part-time.________ c. 35 don’t work, aren’t interested in work, never want to work and sit at home

milking their parents of their hard earned income while playing Call of Duty or dancing to the Michael Jackson Experience.

________ 1. How many people make up the workforce?________ 2. How many would be considered unemployed?________ 3. What is the unemployment rate?

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ORGANIZED LABOR IN THE UNITED STATES

Labor Union:

Strike:

Many strikes during this time period became violent. Examples:

Union membership started to ___________________ rapidly due to the __________________

nature of these strikes.

Slowly, new labor organizations started to form that found strength in numbers. Labor unions

gained a lot of ground in the early 1900’s- 1920’s.

However, when the ___________________________________ hit, unions lost membership

due to the __________________________________________, but gained power because of

legislation passed as part of the ______________________________. Three important pieces

of legislation during this time period were:

What happened to Unions after WWII? Why?

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Closed shop-

Union shop-

Right to work laws-

NEGOTIATING METHODS:

Collective bargaining:

Binding arbitration:

Labor Laws: Use the NYS Dept. of Labor website to answer the following:

What are Labor Standards?

What is the minimum wage? __________

What are meal guidelines?

What are the labor laws for kids under 18?

How are migrant workers protected?

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Why are migrant workers important in our society?

Exercise 1: KNOWING YOUR “HOLLAND CODE”One way of exploring careers is by looking at occupations according to occupational interest. John Holland conducted research that divided jobs and job seekers into six broad categories:

REALISTIC, INVESTIGATIVE, ARTISTIC, SOCIAL, ENTERPRISING, CONVENTIONAL

Your Holland Code is a generalization, not likely to be an exact fit. However, it might help you discover where you can findoccupational satisfaction. There are a number of instruments designed to help you identify your Holland Codes. This condensed survey is not intended to be as accurate or comprehensive as a full instrument. But completing this survey might help you identify the cluster(s) of occupations in which you would have the most interest and get the most satisfaction, and it will give you a place to start your career exploration.

Step One: Circle the number of any item–subject, activity, or type of person–that is appealing to you. Leave the rest blank.

1. Farming2. Advanced math3. Being in a play4. Studying people in otherlands5. Talking to people at a party6. Word processing7. Auto mechanics8. Astronomy9. Draw or paint10. Go to church11. Work on a sales campaign12. Use a cash register13. Carpentry14. Physics15. Foreign language16. Teaching children17. Working from nine to five

18. Setting type for a printing job19. Using a chemistry set20. Reading art and musicmagazines21. Helping people solve personalproblems22. Selling life insurance23. Type reports24. Driving a truck25. Working in a lab26. Musicians27. Making new friends28. Leaders29. Following a budget30. Fixing electrical appliances31. Build rocket model32. Buying clothes for a store33. Creative writing

34. Attending sports events35. Being elected classpresident36. Using business machines37. Building things38. Doing puzzles39. Fashion design40. Belonging to a club41. Giving speeches42. Keeping detailed records43. Wildlife biology44. Being in a science fair45. Going to concerts46. Working with old people47. Sales people48. File letters and reports

Step Two: On the chart below, again circle the numbers of the items which appealed to you. After you have finished, count the numbers circled on each line, counting across. In which categories did you score high? Write the two highest categories on the lines below. These are the clusters in which you have the most interest, and their corresponding labels are your Holland Code. (For example, if you scored highest in Social, and second highest in Artistic, your Holland Code would be “SA”. You would want to concentrate your career exploration efforts in those two categories.)

I scored highest in ___________, second highest in ____________, third highest in ____________

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_____ R = REALISTIC 1 7 13 19 25 31 37 43

_____ I = INVESTIGATIVE 2 8 14 20 26 32 38 44

_____ A= ARTISTIC 3 9 15 21 27 33 39 45

_____ S=SOCIAL 4 10 16 22 28 34 40 46

_____ E=ENTERPRISING 5 11 17 23 29 35 41 47

_____ C=CONVENTIONAL 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48

My Holland Code is ____________.

REALISTIC• Robust, rugged, practical, physically strong• Uncomfortable in social settings• Good motor coordination• Weak verbal and interpersonal skills• See themselves as mechanically andathletically inclined• Stable, natural, persistent• Prefer concrete to abstract problems• Have conventional political and economic goals• Rarely perform creatively in the arts or science• Like to build things with tools• Like to work outdoors• Cool to radical new ideas• Like to work with big, powerful machines• Buy boats, campers, snowmobiles, motorcycles

ARTISTIC• Like art, music, drama, other creative interests• Prefer free, unstructured situations• Impulsive, nonconforming, independent• Adverse to rules• Deal with problems through self-expression in art• Value beauty and aesthetic qualities• Expressive, original, intuitive• Like to work in free environments• Like small, intimate groups• Willing to take risks to try something new• Dress in freer styles than other people• Have need for individualistic expression• Not assertive about own capabilities• Sensitive and emotional• Spend money on art objects, books, paintings, CD’s.

INVESTIGATIVE• Scientific orientation• Task-oriented, all wrapped up in their work• Introspective and asocial• Think through rather than act out a problem• Strong need to understand the world• Enjoy ambiguous tasks• Prefer to work independently• Have unconventional attitudes• See themselves as lacking in leadership skills• Confident of their intellectual abilities• Analytical, curious, reserved, independent• Great dislike for repetitive activities• Buy telescopes, calculators, electronic equipment

SOCIAL• Sociable, responsible, humanistic, religious• Like to work in groups• Have verbal and interpersonal skills• Avoid both intellectual problem-solving andphysical exertion• Enjoy curing, training, developing or enlighteningothers• Understanding, helpful, idealistic• Dislike working with machines or in highly structured situations• Like to discuss philosophic questions• Concerned with the welfare of others• Cooperative, friendly, generous• Attend workshops, other group experiences

ENTERPRISING• Good verbal skills, persuasive• Strong leaders• Avoid work involving long periods of intellectualeffort• Strong drive to attain organizational goals• Concerned with power, status, and leadership• Aggressive, popular, self-confident, sociable• High energy level• Adventuresome, ambitious• Enjoy making things happen• Value money and material possessions• Dislike science and systematic thinking• Buy big cars, nice clothes, country club memberships

CONVENTIONAL• Prefer well-ordered environments• Like systematic, verbal and numerical activities• Avoid ambiguous situations and problems• Conscientious, efficient, practical• Identify with power• Value material possessions and status• Orderly, persistent, calm• Adverse to free, unsystematic, exploratorybehavior in new areas• Do not seek outside leadership• Stable, well-controlled, dependable• Most effective at well-defined tasks• Save money or buy conservatively.

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Preliminary Research for observation:

Which field are you interested in shadowing?

What type of industry is it? Circle one or enter the type here: _______________________________________

Business education medical non-profit trade

How does this industry operate?

What specific businesses/schools/hospitals do we have locally that fit your criteria? You must list at least 5.

1. ____________________________________________________

2. ____________________________________________________

3. ____________________________________________________

4. ____________________________________________________

5. ____________________________________________________

In which of the above are you interested in observing?

What goods or services are offered here?

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Does this place have a website? Yes No

What is the reputation of this place?

What is the mission statement of this place?

Why did you choose this business?

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How much will college/technical school cost me?

COLLEGE NAME: COST

TUITION (1 year) You can factor in scholarships/grants if you know them.

COLLEGE FEESBOOKS AND SUPPLIES

ROOM AND BOARD(IF YOU LIVE AT HOME $0)

TRANSPORTATIONMISCELLANEOUS LIVING EXPENSES

(INSURANCE, ENTERTAINMENT, CLOTHING)TOTAL COST:

Total cost x 4 yrs of attendance:

COLLEGE NAME: COST

TUITION (1 year) You can factor in scholarships/grants if you know them.

COLLEGE FEESBOOKS AND SUPPLIES

ROOM AND BOARD(IF YOU LIVE AT HOME $0)

TRANSPORTATIONMISCELLANEOUS LIVING EXPENSES

(INSURANCE, ENTERTAINMENT, CLOTHING)TOTAL COST:

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Total cost x 4 yrs of attendance:

How do I pay for college/technical school?

Financial Aid:

FAFSA

Tips for getting the most financial aid:

Student Loans:

Subsidized

Unsubsidized

Fixed interest rate

Variable interest rate

Scholarships:

ROTC:

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Military:

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