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.