Understanding Systems

Understanding Systems

Navigates within the organizational structures that are part of 21st-century communities, workplaces, and schools and knows how these components interact and interconnect to influence one another as a whole.

Competency Number

6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8

Competency

Understands process and product.
Engages in sustainable practices.
Demonstrates fiscal responsibility.
Navigates systems.
Monitors systems.
Improves systems.
Demonstrates quality consciousness.
Understands and follows rules, policies, and procedures.

Indicators

☐ Explains personal role in contributing to quality.
☐ Explains personal responsibilities related to production or provision ofservices.
☐ Helps reduce waste and overhead costs by proactively adjusting theuse of materials and resources to complete a task.
☐ Recognizes unsafe or unhealthy practices and addresses concernsusing proper procedures.
☐ Establishes efficient system for monitoring effective use of resources.
☐ Explains the purpose for each payroll deduction.
☐ Describes the worth of benefits.
☐ Identifies organization’s revenue sources and expenditures.
☐ Explains parts of a profit and loss statement.
☐ Explains how quality and customer satisfaction affect profit.
☐ Differentiates roles and responsibilities when navigating workplace,family, education, and community tasks.
☐ Understands one’s work responsibilities and how one’s performancecan impact other departments and overall organizational success.
☐ Uses appropriate resources to improve skills and knowledge toprogress along a career pathway.
☐ Helps devise methods to assess team (system) progress.
☐ Negotiates corrections and adaptations to team (system) tasks, if necessary.
☐ Participates in continuous improvement activities.
☐ Recognizes previous mistakes made individually or by a team and provides possible solutions for future success.
☐ Takes responsibility for completion and quality of work.
☐ Treats work assignments with respect in that work is either original or credited correctly.
☐ Use appropriate resources (e.g., work plans, job aids, or standard operating procedures (SOPs) to complete work tasks.
☐ Uses approved digital technologies for calculating, collecting and displaying data, conducting research, creating presentations, and writing work-related reports.