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Workshop/Class Activities

Current Editors:  Stephen Sweet & Judi Casey
Founding Editors:  Ellen Kossek & Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

This section of the website includes ideas for classes and workshops about work and family issues. You will find suggestions for class exercises, case studies, talking points, PowerPoint slides, and publications recommended for further reading.

We hope that this list of resources continues to grow.

Please send your ideas for class activities to Stephen Sweet at ssweet@ithaca.edu.

Please choose an activity type from the drop down menu below or select a letter below to jump to that section of the index or scroll to see entire list.


Activity Type:  

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A
  • Active Kids After School: The Role of Afterschool in Obesity Prevention
  • Afterschool Action Kit
  • Afterschool Training Toolkit
  • Aging & Work: A Defining Issue of Our Time
  • Aging and Employment Policies: United States
  • Alienation and Control, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Alternative State Coverage Initiatives for Uninsured Workers and Families
  • An excerpt from “Managing Generation Y”
  • Analysis of Family Rituals in the Media, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Analysis of Telework Scalability
  • Analysis of Workplace Rituals in the Media, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Annotated Bibliographies of Work-Family Research
  • Anticipating the Needs of Elders, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Approaches to Addressing Workplace Violence/Domestic Abuse as a Worklife Issue
  • Autobiographical Accounts, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity


    • B
  • Balance or Conflict? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Breastfeeding & Public Health
  • Breastfeeding Advocacy: Taking the political and making it personal
  • Breastfeeding Mom on the Move
  • Bridging the Gaps: Structuring Benefits to Promote Mobility for Low Wage Workers
  • Building Community Capacity to Support Military Families
  • Business Case 1 - Establishing
  • Business Case 2 - Limitations


    • C
  • Can Education and Training Save Low-wage Workers in the US?
  • Care-giving in a Work-first World: The Tentative Emergence of Employer-based Policies
  • Career Interview, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Career Pathways as a Strategy to Advance Low-Wage Workers- The Kentucky Experience
  • Career Stages, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Childcare in the Workplace
  • Class Readings for Flextime Recommended by Maryanne Hyland
  • Collaborative Web Project on Social Structure, Agency, and Diversity
  • Combined Weekly Work Hours of All Couples and Dual-Earner Couples with Children in 1977 and 2002
  • Competition at Work, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Constructs of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Coping With Work and Family Stress
  • Costs of Childcare: An In Class Activity
  • Council on Contemporary Families -- Educational Materials
  • Country Profiles: A Work-Family Project
  • Creating a Great Place to Work: Telecommuting Lessons from the “100 Best”
  • Critical Incidents, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Critical Reflection on the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Cross-National Comparisons of Work, Spouse, and Parental Roles, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Current Teleworking Technology Costs


    • D
  • Dependent Care Assistance Programs and Women in Senior Management, 1998
  • Designing and Implementing Alternative Work Schedules
  • Diary about the Self, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Domestic Violence and the Workplace: Learn what you can do to help
  • Domestic Violence and the Workplace: Supervisory Training
  • Domestic Violence in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers
  • Dual Earner Couples' Adjustments to Work and Family Role Strain, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity


    • E
  • Effective Diversity: Understanding Employee Needs and Employer Advantages, a Class Activity
  • Employer-Supported Child Care (Military Family Services)
  • Employer-Supported Childcare: Building the Business Case
  • Employment Flexibility and Worker Well-Being: The Role of the Psychological Contract
  • Evaluating the Concept of Ritual in Work Contexts, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Examining Rights of Passage, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Exploring Sex and Gender Roles, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Exploring the Complexities of Exceptional Caregiving


    • F
  • Fair Labor Standards Act: Drafting a Proposal for Compensatory Time under the FLSA, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Fair or Not? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
  • Family and Medical Leave Act, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Family Benefits: Proportion of Employees with Coverage (1988-1993)
  • Family Histories: Linking Three-Generations
  • Family Panels to Build a Sociological Perspective on Work-Family Connections
  • Family Policies: Recommendations to Government
  • Family-Friendly Policies, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Family-Friendly Policies: Help or Hindrance?
  • Fashion and Adornment at Work, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Field Observations on the Intersection of Work and Family
  • Field Study Guidelines for Interviewing Employees and Employers
  • Flex-Options for Women, Creating 21st Century Workplace Flexibility
  • Flextime, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • FMLA: A CD Tool Kit for Paid Leave Advocates
  • Forgotten Faces of the Working Poor: What Low Wage Families Need for Work to Work


    • G
  • Gender and Race, Work and Public Policy
  • Gender, Care Giving and the Ideal Worker
  • Gender, Work, and Public Policy Paper
  • Gendered Division of Labor, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Generational Differences in the Workplace: Fact or Fiction?
  • Group Discussion on Work & Family Policies and Strategies


    • H
  • Health and Productivity Bottom Line for Employers
  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Coalition of Washington State
  • Hot Topic Debates: A Class Activity and Assignment
  • How Not to Manage Generation Y


    • I
  • Ideal Worker, Ideal Parent, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Identity Photographs, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Illustration of Work-Family Concepts from 'The Simpsons'
  • Implementing Policies, Practices and Culture to Support Organizational Effectiveness and Work and Family Relationships
  • Improving Work Supports
  • Infusing High Quality Core Content in Afterschool
  • Integrating Flexible Work Arrangements and Work, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • International Comparison of Work Hours
  • Introduction to Paid Sick Days: A PowerPoint Presentation
  • It’s About Time! Staff Time Policy Workshop


    • L
  • Legal Issues When Domestic Violence Comes to Work: Why and How You Can Make A Difference
  • Lobbying For and Against Paid Family Leave, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace


    • M
  • Making the Grade for Care
  • Managing Our Time and Our Stress More Effectively
  • Mapping Your Social Capital, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Media Depictions of Work & Family: Fathers and Mothers on Television, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Mental-Health Friendly Supervision for Workplaces that Thrive!
  • Military Families: Sociology 654 Course Syllabus
  • Mothers’ work-family strain in single and couple parent families: The role of job characteristics and supports.
  • Multiple Transitions of Deployment and Reunion for Military Families


    • N
  • National Federation of Independent Business, Family Time Flexibility/Compensatory Time


    • O
  • Observations of Family Rituals, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Observing Workplace Rituals, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Older People’s Attitudes to Work: Findings from the CROW Postal Survey
  • Older Workers: Wisdom That Works!
  • Organizational Behavior Meets Generations X and Y: A Practical Approach
  • Organizational Payback from Work/Life Policies, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Organizational Pressures, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Orienting Students to Work-Family Content on the Sloan Work and Family Research Network - 1
  • Orienting Students to Work-Family Content on the Sloan Work and Family Research Network - 2
  • Out-of-school Time Presentations Online
  • Overcoming Work-Life Barriers to Recruitment, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity


    • P
  • Part-Time Work is Not a Panacea
  • PBS series Livelyhood, “Night Shift” Episode
  • Perspectives on Workaholic Behavior, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Phased Retirement Programs for the Twenty-First Century Workforce: PowerPoint Presentation
  • Physician Workforce Part-Time Employment
  • Point/Counterpoint: Advantages and Disadvantages of Telecommuting, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Popular Culture and Work-Family Issues
  • Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage


    • Q
  • Quantitative Literacy Through Work-Family Issues


    • R
  • Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in OECD Countries
  • Relationship Abuse & The Workplace: A Training for University of Maine Employees
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter Awards for Excellence in Work-Family Research – A Classroom Resource


    • S
  • Shift work or: What Time is it Anyway?
  • Shiftwork: Implications for Your Health as well as Your Worklife
  • Solving the Part-Time Puzzle
  • Strategies for Work-Family Integration, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Struggling to Make Ends Meet: Low Wage Work in America
  • Supporting Breastfeeding through Law: An Examination of State and Federal Laws
  • Supporting Military Families throughout Deployment
  • SYLLABI: Women's Economic Roles


    • T
  • Talking about Alternative Work Arrangements, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Technology in the Workplace: Implications for Older Workers
  • Telecommuting: A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Telework as Sustainability Solution
  • Testing Work-Family Hypotheses Using the General Social Survey
  • The Case of the Part-time Partner, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions
  • The Dual Perspective and Competing Tensions of Work and Family Policies
  • The Economics of Outrageous Work Life Balance Initiatives
  • The Glass Ceiling Phenomenon, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • The Multi-Generational Challenge: Motivating Multiple Generations and Multiple Expectations
  • The New Office: Essentials of Telecommuting
  • The Process of Participation and Phased Retirement: Evidence from Mature-Aged Workers in Australia
  • The Relationship Between Work and Family Lives, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • The State of Play on Phased Retirement: Facts, Figures, and Policies
  • The Usability of Work/Life Policies and Programs, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • The Virtual Workplace
  • Theories to “Real World” Decisions: A Paper Project
  • Thinking About Adulthood: A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • To Pay or Not To Pay? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Training Syllabus
  • Transitions Research Project
  • Tupperware Parties and Work-Family: Why Women Sell to Women


    • U
  • Under the Radar: How New Business Strategies are Moving Jobs Outside the Reach of Regulation
  • Understanding and Measuring Work/Family Integration, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Understanding the Psychological Contract, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Union Work/Family Curriculum: Making it Work Better


    • V
  • Visions of a Family-Friendly Workplace, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity.


    • W
  • Welfare Reform and Work-Family Studies, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, Case Studies
  • What is Europe Doing to Balance Work and Family? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • What Recent Research Tells Us about Military Families and Communities
  • What Should Unions Do? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • When Mom or Dad (or Both!) are Deployed: The Plight of Our Military Families
  • Women Need Support
  • Women's Labor Force Participation, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Work Hours, A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Work, Human Capital, and Family Composition: An Analysis of Public Policies and Incentive Structures in Oklahoma
  • Work-Family Spillover, Time Use and Food Choices: Perceptions and Strategies of Low-Income Workers
  • Work-Family vs. Work-Life: Are Organizations Equally Supportive of Family and Non-Family Concerns? A Suggested Work and Family Class Activity
  • Work/family Conflict Issues for Soldiers and Family
  • Working with Generations X and Y
  • Workplace Flexibility Case Studies
  • Workplace Flexibility: An Emerging Public Health Concern
  • Workplace Strategies and Interventions for Improving Health and Well-Being


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