Ebook: Resource management for individuals and families

Machine generated contents note: 1. Management Today -- Main Topics -- What Is Family Resource Management? -- Introduction to Family and Household Trends -- Management as a Process -- Successful Plans: Putting Management into Action -- Why Manage? -- Who Manages? -- Influences on Management Styles -- Interdisciplinary Foundation -- Life Management for Individuals and Families -- Managing the Second Half of Life -- Singles, Households, Nonfamily Households, and Families -- Changes in Family and Household Composition -- What Lies Ahead? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 2. Management History and Theories -- Main Topics -- History of Management -- The Early Years of Management -- Household Production/Consumption System I: Premodern (Early 1900s) -- Household Production/Consumption System II: Modern (1950s to 1990s) -- Household Production/Consumption System III: Postmodern (Early 21st Century) -- Four Eras of Management -- Theory Overview -- Functions of Theory -- Theories Ahead -- Systems Theory -- Open and Closed Families -- Subsystems and System Elements -- The Personal System -- Family Systems Theory and Management -- Application of Systems Theory to Households -- Human Ecology and Ecosystems -- Economic Theory -- Optimization and Satisfieing -- Risk Aversion -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- For Further Reading -- 3. Values, Attitudes, Goals, and Motivation -- Main Topics -- Values and Attitudes -- Types of Values -- Values, Lifestyles, and Consumption -- Societal and Cultural Values -- Families, Values, Standards, and Households -- Value Chains -- Attitudes -- Goals and Motivation -- Goals Versus Habits -- Goal Attributes -- Types of Goals -- Goals and Performance, Creativity, and Learning -- Setting Goals -- Disengaging from Goals -- College Students' Values, Goals, and Life Outcomes -- Motivation -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 4. Resources -- Main Topics -- Resources Defined -- Types of Resources -- Economics and Resources -- Resource Attributes and a Model -- Resource-Advantage Theory -- Other Resource Allocation Factors: Utility and Accessibility -- Decision Making and Resources -- Knowledge, Education, and Health: Vital Resources -- Cultural Perceptions of Resources -- Resources, Families, and Households -- Consumption: China Using More Resources -- Strategy and the Conservation of Resources Theory -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 5. Decision Making and Problem Solving -- Main Topics -- Decisions Defined and Explored -- Decision Making as Part of Management -- Steps in Decision Making -- Self-Doubt, Self-Ambivalence, and Decision Making -- Models, Rules, and Utility -- Reference Groups -- Personal Decision Making -- Family Decision Making, Including Division of Household Work -- Consumer Decision Making in Families -- Getting Out of the House -- Problem Solving -- Definition, Analysis/Timing, and Plan of Action -- Uncertainty, Risk, and Success -- The GO Model: Visualization of a Problem-Solving Process -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 6. Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating -- Main Topics -- What Is Planning? -- The Planning Process and Task -- Need Fulfillment -- Time, Stress, and Planning -- Planning in Families and Other Groups -- Standard Setting -- Scheduling, Sequencing, and Multitasking -- Attributes of Plans -- Types of Plans -- What Is Implementing? -- Actuating -- Checking and Controlling -- What Is Evaluating? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 7.Communication -- Main Topics -- Communication as Part of the Management Process -- Channels, Noise, and Setting -- Sending and Receiving -- Listening -- Messages -- Channels and Feedback -- Communication Conflicts -- In Families -- Cultures and Subcultures -- Communication in Small Groups -- Group Discussions and Cohesion -- Information and Communications Technology -- Social Networks and Social Network Sites -- Information Overload and Habitual Decision Making -- The Internet and the Human Capacity to Process Information -- The Role of the Home and the Individual -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 8. Managing Human Needs -- Main Topics -- Changes in Population -- Population Terms and Trends -- Population Age and Composition -- Households and Families -- The Nature of Change -- Mobility -- Managing Change -- Meeting Individual, Family, and Societal Needs -- Two-Earner Families -- Child Care -- Caregivlng for Older Persons and the Elderly -- Adjusting to Retirement -- The Homeless -- Individuals with Disabilities -- Single-Parent, Remarriage, and Stepfamilies or Blended Families -- Poverty and Low-Income Families -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 9. Managing Time -- Main Topics -- Time as a Resource -- Discretionary Versus Nondiscretionary Time -- Children, Adolescents, and Time -- Adults and Time -- Modern Tools of Time Management -- The ABC Method of Time Control and Goals -- Time Perceptions -- Perceptions of Time across Cultures -- Biological Time Patterns -- Quantitative and Qualitative Time Measures -- Demands, Sequencing, and Standards -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 10. Managing Work and Family -- Main Topics -- Introduction to Work and Family Research -- Overview of Work and Family -- Work and Family Conflicts -- Benefits of Work and Spillover to Families -- Resolving Work and Family Conflicts -- Social Support and Work and Family -- Family-Supportive Workplace Policies -- The Meaning of Work and Leisure -- Feeling Overworked -- Work Ethic -- Workaholism and Vacations -- The Three Ps: Procrastination, Parkinson's Law, and Pareto's Principle -- Workforce Trends -- Home-Based Work and Telecommuting -- Volunteer Work -- Leisure -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 11. Managing Stress and Fatigue -- Main Topics -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Stress Research -- Crises and Adaptation to Stress -- Planning and Organizing -- Outsourcing -- Decision Making and Stress -- The Body's Response to Stress -- Diet, Exercise, and Stress -- Stress Management -- Type A and Type B Personalities -- Techniques for Reducing Stress -- Job Stress -- Burnout -- Stress and Nonevents -- Parents, Children, Stress, Burnout -- College Students and Stress -- Fatigue -- The Body and Fatigue -- Systems Theory: Sleep, Energy, and Fatigue -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 12. Managing Environmental Resources -- Main Topics -- Sustainability -- The Ecosystem and Environmentalism -- Problem Recognition -- Biodegradability -- Biological Diversity -- Individual and Family Decision Making -- Incorporating Agriculture into Communities -- Environmental Problems and Solutions -- Water Quality and Availability -- Energy -- Noise -- Waste and Recycling -- Air Quality -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 13. Managing Finances -- Main Topics -- Financial Management and Security -- Family Economics: Avoiding Economic Fallout, Building Toward the Future -- The Business Cycle and Inflation -- Individuals and Families as Producers and Consumers -- Income, Taxes, Net Worth, Budgets, and Saving -- Managing Credit and Reducing Debt -- Banking, Investments, and Insurance -- Children, Expenses, and Financial Literacy -- Saving for College -- College Students, Starting Out -- Retirement and Financial Planning -- Financial Planning -- Further Family Economic Issues -- The Gender Gap, Earnings Gap, and the Glass Ceiling -- Wealth and Poverty -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References -- 14. Managing Tomorrow -- Main Topics -- Technology and Innovation -- Visionary Leadership and Managerial Judgment -- Household Innovations -- Adopting Innovations and Applying Technology -- The 5S Management Concept -- Information and Innovation Overload -- Family, Home, and Global Change -- Quality of Life and Well-Being -- Multiculturalism -- Sustainability, Environment, and Consumption -- Health Care and the Food Supply -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Review Questions -- References.