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HOME MANAGEMENT
This course will enable the students
- To understand the basic concepts of management and management process.
- To understand family characteristics various resources available to family.
Introduction to Management and Home management
- Basic Concepts of Management and home management
- Characteristics of Management
- Need of Management
- Importance of Home Management
- Misconceptions in Management
- Obstacles in the improvement of management
- Qualities of a good home maker
Family
- Meaning and definition, characteristics
- Types of family
- Classification of the family on the basis of residence, lineage, succession, marriage, number and structure
- Family life cycle, functions of family
- Effects of socio economic , Geographical factors and Employment status of house wife on family characteristics
Motivators of Management
- Goals – Definition, Types and Utility.
- Values – Importance, Sources of values, Classification, Characteristics, Changing Values
- Standards – Definition, Classification, Quantitative, Qualitative, Conventional and Non-conventional
- Interdependence of values, goals and standards
Resources in the Family
• Importance of Family Resources
• Use of Resources
Types of Resources - Human and Non Human resources
- Factors affecting the use of Resources
- Decision Making in the family - Process and steps
Management Process
- Meanings and Elements of Process – Planning, Controlling the Plan and Evaluating,
- Decision Making-Process and steps.
- Types techniques and importance of Planning
- Organizing and Delegations
- Controlling the Plan in action
- Supervising – Types – Analysis
- Evaluation – Types, Techniques
- Gross,I. H. and Crandall,E.W. (1963): Management for modern Families
- Nickell, P. and Dorsey, J.M. (1970): Management in Family Living. Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi.
1. Donnely, J.H... Gibson, J.L. and Ivancevick, J.M. (1995). Fundamentals of Management. Chicago.
2. Gross,I. H. and Crandall,E.W and Knoll,M.M. (1980): Management for modern Families.
3. Mullick, Premlata (2000): Text book of Home Science. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
4. Nickell, P. and Dorsey, J.M. (1970): Management in Family Living. Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi.
5. Varghese, M.A., Ogle, M. and Srinivasan, K. (1985): Home Management. Wiley Eastern Publishers, New Delhi.
