1 Running Head: NATURE OF WORK 7 NATURE OF WORK NATURE OF WORK Claudia Rangel CCMH 540 week 1 Career and Vocational Counseling Mrs. Cinthya Yaptangco November 14, 2018 The nature of work has changed considerably over time with various factors being attributed to this change. The first way in which the nature of work has changed over time is through the advent of more advanced technologies with the progression of history. Today technological breakthroughs for instance in robotics, artificial intelligence, microelectronics, computer-integrated assembly, and manufacturing. Moreover, the proliferation in digital telecommunications depicted in the global reach of the Internet have all impacted the nature of work throughout the generations of their creation (National Research Council, 1999). These new technologies have made the nature of work to shift from being predominantly physically intensive to being more intellectually challenging with more emphasis being placed on an individual’s technical ability rather than their physical capacities. The second way in which the nature of the work has also experienced change over time is through the effect of the demographic constitution of the workforce. These have become evident in the increasing presence of women in the workplace, the enhancement in the levels of cultural diversity in the workplace, and improvements in the education levels of the workforce. These factors have worked over the progression of time in changing the nature of vocation (National Research Council, 1999). These changes in the demography of the workforce have the led to a alteration in the forms of work since the labor market can get a more skilled workforce. Through the greater inclusivity of the hiring criteria, the improved educational qualifications of the workforce among other factors have helped in making the workplace to be more conducive and accommodating with the progression of time. There have been significant changes in the attitudes towards work seen amongst people from different generations through the progression of time. The leading cause of conflict in the workplace, between generations, has been attributed to the perceived decline in the work ethic with the progress of time. For example generation, X has been tagged as the ‘lazy’ generation (Adams, 2000). The employers have made the complaint that younger workers do not display commitment in their output and only work the required hours and rarely go beyond its limits. The boomer's generation is known to be workaholics and is known to have started the trend. In addition to this, the traditional attitude to work has been in the description that they are the hardest working generation. The nature of the relationship between work and personal life is often left unexamined because most people prefer to separate these two areas of their lives and to treat them as separate entities. Despite this, various connections have been found between the activities t.

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Running Head: NATURE OF WORK
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NATURE OF WORK
NATURE OF WORK
Claudia Rangel
CCMH 540 week 1
Career and Vocational Counseling
Mrs. Cinthya Yaptangco
November 14, 2018
The nature of work has changed considerably over time with
various factors being attributed to this change. The first way in
which the nature of work has changed over time is through the
advent of more advanced technologies with the progression of
history. Today technological breakthroughs for instance in
robotics, artificial intelligence, microelectronics, computer-
integrated assembly, and manufacturing. Moreover, the
proliferation in digital telecommunications depicted in the
global reach of the Internet have all impacted the nature of work
throughout the generations of their creation (National Research
Council, 1999). These new technologies have made the nature
of work to shift from being predominantly physically intensive
to being more intellectually challenging with more emphasis
being placed on an individual’s technical ability rather than
their physical capacities.

2. The second way in which the nature of the work has also
experienced change over time is through the effect of the
demographic constitution of the workforce. These have become
evident in the increasing presence of women in the workplace,
the enhancement in the levels of cultural diversity in the
workplace, and improvements in the education levels of the
workforce. These factors have worked over the progression of
time in changing the nature of vocation (National Research
Council, 1999). These changes in the demography of the
workforce have the led to a alteration in the forms of work since
the labor market can get a more skilled workforce. Through the
greater inclusivity of the hiring criteria, the improved
educational qualifications of the workforce among other factors
have helped in making the workplace to be more conducive and
accommodating with the progression of time.
There have been significant changes in the attitudes towards
work seen amongst people from different generations through
the progression of time. The leading cause of conflict in the
workplace, between generations, has been attributed to the
perceived decline in the work ethic with the progress of time.
For example generation, X has been tagged as the ‘lazy’
generation (Adams, 2000). The employers have made the
complaint that younger workers do not display commitment in
their output and only work the required hours and rarely go
beyond its limits. The boomer's generation is known to be
workaholics and is known to have started the trend. In addition
to this, the traditional attitude to work has been in the
description that they are the hardest working generation.
The nature of the relationship between work and personal life is
often left unexamined because most people prefer to separate
these two areas of their lives and to treat them as separate
entities. Despite this, various connections have been found
between the activities that a person carries out at work and
those which he does at home. Firstly, there have been seen by
credible researchers and experts that the way a person organizes
themselves in their personal life has a significant carry-over

3. effect on their work (Crosby, 2014). This means that if a person
is organized at home, this will be the case at work in most cases
and with similar conditions. The second link between the
workplace and the home is evident in the amount of stress that a
person experiences in one of these points of their daily
activities, For example, if a person is stressed in their personal
life like maybe because a relative is ill or otherwise may work
to influence how they operate in the workplace. Conversely, if a
person is stressed at work perhaps because their boss is putting
them under too much pressure or the workload is overwhelming
(Crosby, 2014). These may carry over to the individual’s
personal life which will become evident when they are at home.
They may eat less, sleep less or just become unhappy as a result
of this.
Career development services are vital to the modern day
professional since they address important aspect of employment
that are often overlooked. Many people get the education they
need to gain the necessary qualifications to be hired at their
dream companies and finally to be able to earn a living. Even
though most people complete their education, there remains an
issue that most of them often overlook. This is to do with how
they can advance their careers to meet their goals or possibly
help define their goals in the future. Many people have no clue
how to go about this, and they often don’t realize that they need
to think about the methodology and steps that they should take
to advance their careers significantly. Therefore with this issue
in mind, the need for a competent career development guide
springs up. These may be in the form of an agency, agent or
guide all of which may take different shapes and forms. These
services are geared toward improving the individual’s
understanding of the various steps they ought to take to
amicably advance their careers. This is an area where many
professionals ought to consider for them to be able to develop in
more controlled ways rather than leaving the entire process to
fate.
The methods of determining how conditions at work influence

4. our life experiences include first, interviewing with the staff on
how the various elements of the workplace have influenced their
life experiences. By carrying out such an interview, the
respondent may provide vital information that could help
researchers to make critical conclusions that would improve the
understanding of this issue. The interview is an effective
method of gathering this information as it entails getting a
firsthand account of how these factors became manifest in the
individual’s life. The second method of determining this is
through surveys in the form of questionnaires. However
rudimentary this method appears, it comprises a vital part
aspect of the research process that would help shape our
understanding of how the conditions at work influence our life
experiences. This method would help the researchers to query
the staff on the multiple factors at work and how they affect the
individual in their lives. Moreover, the employees would have
the added advantage of offering their feedback confidentially.
This will protect their identity and help them to be more
forthcoming and honest in their responses.
Work roles can be defined as the set of tasks and activities that
particular individual’s in an organization carry out. Diversity
refers to the cultural and ethnical differences that are evident in
a specific nation, group or community. Global perspectives
refer to the scenario when an individual thinks about a
particular issue and how it relates to the rest of the world.
These three are connected in that certain work roles that people
from diverse backgrounds are given are often realized based on
the individual’s global perspectives. This may be based on the
popular views about the subject and how it relates to the
individual. This affects the perceptions and opinions of the
individual in that it makes them believe certain things based on
the experiences that they encounter in the workplace within
their specifies roles (Crosby, 2014). The experiences may shape
their beliefs about minority group as dictated by their global
perspective.
I think that work has changed significantly over the years

5. particular with the advent of new technical capacities. These
have made work to be more comfortable with reference to the
physical demands that were previously pervasive in the
workplace. This has changed the roles in the workplace where
individuals are assigned. The criteria that guide this choice is
that of the individual’s skills and technical abilities which are
ever increasingly knowledge-based as opposed to their physical
capacities. I think that the workplace has become more
demanding and competitive in recent times (Crosby, 2014). To
be able to be considered indispensable to an organization, at
least to some considerable degree, an individual has to exhibit
their value in certain ways. This may be through their
performance, reliability, experience, technical know-how and
consistency in the workplace. These aspects may be hard for the
individual to maintain consistently, which would heighten the
level of competition in the workplace. This perception relates to
my counseling style in that it makes me more empathetic to my
client’s needs. This means that I listen carefully to their
accounts and communicate my response with knowledge of what
their experiences in the workplace on a day to day basis entail.
In this way, I believe my counseling styles become more
effective since, I understand my client's issue with greater detail
and am able to solve the problems they encounter more
efficiently.
References
Adams, S. J. (2000). Generation X: How understanding this
population leads to better safety programs. Professional Safety,
45, 26–29.
Bova, B. & Kroth, M. (2001). Workplace learning and
generation X. Journal of Workplace Learning, 13, 57–65.
Crosby, T. (2014, October 19). Inter-relationship between work
& personal life. Retrieved November 13, 2018, from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141019214630-8056191-
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Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:
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Guidelines for Writing a Vocational Treatment Plan
CCMH/540 Version 3
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University of Phoenix Material
Guidelines for Writing a Vocational Treatment Plan
Overview
The vocational treatment plan is guided by the assessment. For
example, if the assessment were a lack of confidence and a lack
of job skills, then the treatment plan would address confidence
and job-skill issues.
Goals and interventions must be attainable for the client, given
the client's strengths and vulnerabilities. The treatment modality
must also reflect the best possible approaches given the client's
personality, strengths, and limitations.
The following vocational treatment plan example is what you
will be using for your Integrative Paper and Presentation: A
Hypothetical Vocational Treatment Plan, due in Week 6. The
following are important questions to consider: Is the approach
appropriate, given the presented problem and the client's
personality and motivation? Does the plan reflect what the
client wants to achieve?

7. Treatment Planning Steps
I. Relationship Building
Describe some key factors you will have to consider and act
upon related to your client and relationship building.
II. Assessment: Information Gathering and Exploration
List information you have to obtain from a historical and
current environmental situation. Will you need to conduct any
specific or more formal career and vocational assessments? Are
there any other mental health, social, familial, or other
significant factors that need to be considered?
III. Consolidation Process, Decision Making, and Goal Setting
The best way to establish goals is to ask the client, "What do
you want to change?" and "What would that change look like?"
Together, you can then formulate attainable goals. Remember,
goals are outcomes for the client and should be worded
accordingly. That is, you would not place the words learn job-
interviewing skills under goals. You would place the words
under interventions, as it is an intervention for the purpose of
obtaining a job.
You will have to set short-term goals and long-term goals.
Remember that your goals should be specific, measurable,
action-oriented, realistic, and timed, or SMART.
· Short-term goals
· Relief of symptoms of anxiety
· Practice job-interviewing skills
· Long-term goals

8. · Resolution of employment issues
· Improved sense of financial security
IV. Action Planning and Interventions
Interventions are actions taken by the counselor.
Ask yourself what you, the counselor, will be doing in the
session to help the client achieve the established goals.
List the actions you will take as a career and vocational
counselor to help the client achieve his or her short- and long-
term goals.
V. Ethical or Legal Considerations
Identify and note at least one ethical or legal consideration
related to your case.
VI. Referral Resources
Include any possible outside referrals that may support or
expand the client's progress toward attaining his or her goals.
VII. Follow-Up Plan and Other Supports
Include how, and in what way, you will adequately follow-up
during the action plan’s implementation phase.
List any other environmental, social, or family supports that
might be needed to support the interventions.
VIII. Termination and Evaluation Plan
Describe your evaluation plan to monitor and record your

9. client’s progress during the course of, and at the end of, the
career counseling action plan. Note what considerations need to
be examined related to termination and a successful ending to
the career counseling action plan.
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Wk 6 Individual: Vocational Assessment Summary and
Treatment Plan
Assignment Content
This signature assignment is designed to align with specific
program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program
Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe
what students should know and be able to do upon completion
of their degree. The signature assignments may be graded with
an automated rubric that allows the university to collect data
that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and
used for program improvements.
Review the Guidelines for Writing a Vocational Treatment Plan.
Read The Case of Jennifer. Jennifer is a 33-year-old woman
who is unhappy with her current employment. Jennifer works
for an online distribution company and is responsible for
monitoring the inventory and keeping the records up to date at
all times. She has been doing this job for the past three years
and has never felt fulfilled. Before this job, she was a full-time
mother and had not worked since she was 24, when she worked
as a teller at a bank. Those are the only two jobs that she has
ever had.
She currently makes $11 per hour and often has to work
overtime shifts to make ends meet for her family. She is a single
mother raising two young girls, ages 5 and 8. She and her
daughters have been living with her parents since her divorce
four years ago. Jennifer desires to be independent and on her

10. own with her children, but she needs more financial stability to
do so. She has thought about trying to apply for a management
position, but she is not sure if she is qualified. She has a high
school diploma, but does not have any college experience.
Jennifer has recently experienced interpersonal issues at her job
with two other coworkers. Her work environment has left her
feeling stressed and anxious. Jennifer would like to consider a
career change, but she is not sure how to start. Ultimately, she
wants to strive for financial stability, and she wants to feel
happy when she goes to work.
Develop a 1,050- to 1,400-word vocational assessment summary
and treatment plan for Jennifer. Include the following:
Summarize Jennifer's employment history and job skills.
Describe Jennifer's current employment situation.
Analyze the interrelationships among Jennifer's work, family,
and personal life roles, according to a specific career counseling
theory.
Identify any potential ethical or legal considerations related to
the case.
Write a formal vocational treatment plan that includes the
following:
Specific and measurable goals and objectives
An action plan for how to meet the goals and objectives
A description of how progress towards goals will be evaluated
A termination plan
Demonstrate professional counselor competencies throughout
the assessment summary and treatment plan.
Include a minimum of three to five scholarly resources that
directly support your main points.
Format your paper consistent with appropriate course-level APA
guidelines.