Basic Job Skills: Handling Responsibility

Presents four young people demonstrating variations on the theme of handling responsibility in different jobs., Recurring characters who assume changing roles in four different work situations demonstrate variations on the theme of handling responsibility. This role-playing approach focuses on core situations which examine the interdependence of co-workers in accepting job responsibility, responsibilities of workers to supervisors, and the responsibility of a supervisor for the work of others. After each presentation, a summary is made of the important points., Emphasizes the interdependence operating in job situations by dramatizing four different environments and levels of responsibility. Uses an office setting to point out such responsibilities as being on time and completing duties, then moves to a machine shop to show what can happen when someone assumes too much responsibility. Observes a clerk who proves she can handle simple resonsibility, grows in job skill, and adds to her duties. Relates the responsibilities of businesses to the community by recording incidents in a pharmacy.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.