Family and Work-Family
All languages and cultures have a word or label for a group of people living together or in a household. In English, it is family for groups of people living together. The group may be related by birth, marriage, or other ways. The word family is not restricted to personal life. We use it to bring the corporate team together by labeling work family. An average worker spends one-third of the time at work, one-third with family, and one-third resting. It is fair to say working adults have two families.
It is a good strategy if the firm can create a corporate culture that allows employees to be creative, innovative, and productive and achieve their personal and professional goals. However, it is difficult for the firm to create an environment that fulfills the needs of each corporate team member as an immediate family may do because it must balance the needs of customers, employees, suppliers, and stakeholders to generate profits and create value for the shareholders. These management responsibilities create the distinction between the family at work and home. Businesses must understand the distinction between two families before implementing the family concept in the workplace.
Although there is a distinction between the two families, the purpose of forming families is to achieve success in life and work. Work-family success is determined using quarterly and annual metrics to measure the company’s performance, customer and employee satisfaction, sustainability efforts, financial health, and value creation. The goal is to assess the company's performance, improve the areas of weakness, and bank on the strengths to avoid bankruptcy, stay profitable, and grow. It is a collective work-family contribution analysis.
I have been teaching business and management for the last four decades. When a learner asks me about a company’s performance, I use financial and value metrics to share the company’s historical, present, and expected performance. These metrics are well established and help investors make investment decisions, managers improve performance, and analysts predict the firm's future performance. In business, work-family efforts, which include management and employees, result in the company's performance.
However, when I meet my friends, family members, colleagues, or former students, I ask them how their families are doing, or if they ask me how my family is doing, the most common response is that they are doing well. This may be because family is a personal affair, or we are unaware of the metrics for evaluating the family performance, or we only care to assess the family performance if some problem arises. Such an approach is not wise because when a problem occurs, it impacts everyone in the family and reduces the chances of success in the future. It also affects the work family because we are human beings, and the physical, mental, and emotional impact is carried to the work family at the workplace.
The interconnection between immediate family and work family or workplace triggered my interest in exploring ways to evaluate family performance. A family’s success is essential for a happy at home and work. There is a lot of self-help literature and professional help for solving family problems. These tools are helpful after the problem is recognized. We need simple performance evaluations to identify issues before they become problems for the family and impact the family and work life. The collective success of family members leads to success in individual personal and professional life.
Family success begins with evaluating the past, understanding the present, and planning for the future. An analysis of family performance starts with the assumption that an immediate family is people living together under one roof, such as parents, children, and spouses, and extended family includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. There is a beginning and end to life, and that is one reason there is a life cycle for families.
The introduction stage begins with two or more people living together who may or may not have children. The next stage is the growth stage, in which the group works together to achieve family goals. In the maturity stage, members who become adults exit the immediate family to start a new family, and mature adults begin planning to live an independent life and enter the decline stage.
Human energy is the fuel for the individual and family’s success. The family structure and model create an environment for learning to use energy for positive or negative outcomes. It is the foundation for the family's success. The relationship analysis will help determine whether the energy is used for positive or negative outcomes. The self-analysis tools allow individuals and families to learn from the past and change to build a new family. The past includes parents and their parents (grandparents), the present your parents and you. If the analysis of past and present shows issues, then change is needed.
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The following relationship analysis helps evaluate the family's success in learning and building relationships. A stable and healthy relationship is the foundation for a successful family.
The above results will help evaluate the success rate of family relationships compared to the national average. In general, a lower score is a concern for family success. If individuals have difficulty building and maintaining relationships, they will have problems with workplace relationships.
The following family behavior and environment awareness analysis will help evaluate how the family utilizes human energy for negative outcomes and its impact on the relationship, personal growth, education, and intelligence. The family goal should be to minimize the use of human energy for negative outcomes and use it for positive outcomes.
The above results will help evaluate the negative emotions consuming energy and issues families need to address to improve their performance. Generally, a higher score is a concern for family success because individuals with behavioral issues will have problems at home and work.
The self-analysis tools allow individuals and families to learn from the past and change to build a new family. The family's success depends on building a foundation for success that involves learning how to use human energy for positive outcomes, which will lead to healthy relationships and positive emotions. If you want to learn how to use human energy for positive outcomes, the book Road to Success: A Few Things to Know will help you understand how to use human energy in building the road to success. It is available worldwide at Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Barnes and Noble, Audible, and other online platforms. The book is available in eBook, print, and audiobook formats.
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