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Dog Gone Job!
In this lesson, you will watch a video of a business and talk about the types of jobs that you saw. You'll also complete a drag and drop activity to help you learn about job specialization.
Activity 1
Watch the following slide show of the daily activities at a kennel. Pay close attention to the types of jobs you see people doing.
What types of jobs did you see at the kennel?
What other jobs may exist at the kennel?
Activity 2
Workers are sometimes "specialized". This means they have special skills that they use to perform their job. This allows a worker time to get very good at one skill instead of learning all of the skills needed to operate a kennel.
Complete this Venn Diagram Activity comparing two workers' jobs.
Think about these questions:
What do you think might happen if all of the workers had to know how to do all of the jobs in a kennel?
What would happen if all of the employees had to learn how to care for sick animals?
See if you can list ways in which job specialization is a benefit. Use these questions to help you:
- How might job specialization help a worker get better at a job?
- Do you think a worker who specializes at their job will make more or fewer mistakes?
- Would it take more or less training time to train a worker in one specialized job or many different jobs?
- Who do you think would finish their job more quickly: a specialized worker or a non-specialized worker?
Now see if you can list ways in which job specialization is not a benefit. Use these questions to help you:
- What do you think a worker may feel doing the same job every day?
- What would happen if the groomer were out sick one day.
Write a job announcement for a position at the kennel. Refer to local papers or online national newspapers such as www.washingtonpost.com (along the right-hand navigation bar) for examples of job announcements. List the tasks, which that particular worker needs to be able to do.
