Workplace Skills Rationale
Workplace Skills Standard 1
Workplace Skills Standard 2
Workplace Skills Standard 3
Workplace Skills Standard 4
Workplace Skills Standard 5
Workplace Skills Standard 6
Workplace Skills Standard 7
Workplace Skills Standard 8
Arizona Standards

Workplace Skills Standards
(Adopted 3/24/97)

Standard 8

Students apply principles of resource management and develop skills that promote personal and professional well-being.

Students know and are able to do the following:

READINESS (Kindergarten)

  • Set short-term goals
  • Allocate the time, space and materials needed to accomplish classroom activities

FOUNDATIONS (Grades 1-3)

  • Understand the relationship between the goal-setting process and the allocation of time, money, material and human resources 
  • Plan class time to accomplish schoolwork goals

ESSENTIALS (Grades 4-8)

  • Set and prioritize a set of balanced goals related to school, home, education, and career planning and allocate sufficient time, materials and resources to each task 
  • Describe the importance of balancing home, school and community activities to reduce stress

PROFICIENCY (Grades 9-12)

  • Set and prioritize their goals, estimate the time required to complete each assigned task, and prepare and follow the timeline/schedule 
  • Prepare a short- and long-term personal budget; make expenditure, revenue and savings forecasts; and maintain proper records 
  • Evaluate the impact of health choices (e.g., smoking, substance abuse, exercise) on personal and professional well-being 
  • Identify strategies for balancing self, family, work, leisure and citizenship; ways to reduce the impact of stress; and how both relate to personal and career satisfaction

DISTINCTION (Honors)

  • Design a request-for-proposal process 
  • Maintain a personal management system by setting goals, managing resources, and balancing life choices to accomplish career and life satisfaction 
  • Select relevant goals, prioritize them, allocate time to each, and prepare and follow schedules when solving workplace or school projects 
  • Organize and efficiently allocate material, facilities, supplies, parts and equipment to optimize their use in personal and professional goal attainment 
  • Prepare budgets and make cost and revenue forecasts in a business, reconciling differences between inventory and financial records, and projecting resource needs over time 
  • Design a task analysis flow chart 
  • Assess knowledge and skills, delegate work accordingly, evaluate performance and provide feedback on human resources when working on a team project 
  • Design a computer-generated workplace document with narrative and graphics, using desktop publishing software 
  • Demonstrate an understanding of First-In First-Out (FIFO), Last-In First-Out (LIFO) and Just-in-Time inventory systems 
  • Develop a workplace staffing plan and write job descriptions
  • Develop a bill processing system