PLATEAUING

responsibility

Employees can plateau for

several reasons;
Discrimination based on
gender, age or race

 Lack of ability
Lack of training

 Low need for achievement

Unfair pay decision or
dissatisfaction with the raises

 Confusion about the

responsibilities
Slow company growth
resulting in reduced
development opportunities

SKILLS
OBSOLESCENCE

Obsolescence is a reduction in an
employee's competence resulting
from a lack of knowledge of new
work processes, techniques and
technologies that have developed
since the employee completed his
or her education.

Avoiding skills obsolescence

has traditionally been concern
of employees in technical and
professional occupations such
as engineering and medicine.

Obsolescence can also be avoided

by;
Providing employees with the
opportunity to exchange
information and ideas.

Giving employees challenging

job assignments early in their
careers.
Providing job assignments that
challenge employees and require
them to "stretch" their skills.

Providing rewards for updating behaviors

(such as taking courses), suggestions, and
customer service and product innovations.
Allowing employees to attend professional
conferences, subscribe to professional journals
and magazines, or enroll in university, technical
school, or community center courses at low or
no cost.
Encouraging employees to interact in person
or electronically to discuss problems and new
ideas.

COPING WITH
CAREER BREAKS
Both men and women face major
problems in trying to return to work
after taking several months or years
off for family or other reasons.

Women are more likely than meant

to leave jobs for family reasons.

Trying to return to work often find

that their skills and knowledge are
out-of-date and that they have lost
their professional network.

Towards the end of your career break, the

following tips can help prepare you to use the
benefits of your career break in the next stage
of your career:
Update your CV to include any courses,
qualifications and experiences youve had,
such as volunteering, which may help you
during your search.
Decide how you can best sell the benefits of
your career break to a potential employer.

 If you wish to move into another work

sector, think about how you can build on
your career break experience to make the
move.
List any contacts you made during your
career break, whom you could speak to
about work opportunities or
collaboration.

BALANCING WORK AND LIFE

Research suggests that employees need to have
support networks at home, at work, and in the
community. The influence of a partner support is
greater when employees feel that their
employers are unsupportive of their nonwork
lives.

One way that company can help

employees balance work and life
is to provide support for
employees who are concerned
with simultaneously meeting the
needs of work and family. Work
and family needs are likely to
conflict because employees are
forced to take on several different
roles (e.g., parent, spouse,
employee) in a number of
different environments (e.g.,
workplace, home, community).

Types of Work-Life
Conflict
Time-Based conflict occurs when the demands of work and
nonwork interfere with each other. For example, jobs that
demand late evenings at office, overtime work, or out-oftown travel conflict with family activities and team-sport
schedules.
Strain-based conflict results from the stress of work and
nonwork roles. For example, a new-born child deprives
parents of sleep; as a result, it is difficult for them to
concentrate at work.
Behavior-based conflict occurs when employees' behavior
in work roles is not apprpriate for their behavior in
nonwork roles. For example, managers' work demands that
they be logical, impartial, and authoritarian. At the same
time, these same managers are expected to be warm,
emotional, and friendly in their relationships with their
family members or friends.

THANK
YOU!