Chapter I:

Management Today
 Today’s Topics

• Basic management
• What is family resource
management
• Life management for
individuals and families

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 Basics Management

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 Basics Management
What is management?
Process of using resources to
achieve goals (process of using
what one has to get what one
wants)

Points to remember:
• The resources is limited
• People handle that limitation
differently, affected by internal
& external factors  make
management complex and
need to be studied

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 Management Process

Identify Accomplish
problem, need, Clarify Identify Decide, Plan,
goals and
want, or goal Values Resources and Implement
evaluate

Feedback

Environment

Figure 1 The management process

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 Management Process
Step 1: Identify problem, need, or goal

Need: What we need to

survive or sustain life
Want: things that we are
desire

Goal:
Problem: End result that
question, require action for
dilemmas, or their fulfillment
situation require
solving

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 Management Process
Step 2: Clarify Values

After problem, What do really

need, or goal want, does it fit
identified with value
system?

Behavior has consequences, thus

Value:
management is based on values and
principles that goal-seeking behavior;
guide behavior without these, the process would be
aimless bad misdirected

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 Management Process
Step 3: Identify Resources

Whatever is available to be used: information,

Resources time, skills, human, money, etc.

Quantitative and/or qualitative criteria that

Standards reconcile resources with demands

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Step 4: Decide, Plan, and Implement

Planning:
Making a series of
decisions that lead
to action

Implementation:
Decision making: Putting
choosing plans into action
between two or
more alternatives

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Step 5: Accomplish Goal and Evaluation

Evaluation – while consider as

the most important step in the
process – is often overlooked

Was the problem solved?

What was learned?
Which decisions/plans worked?
Which decisions/plans failed?
What adjustments should made?
The answers will be part of
feedback,
Information that returns to the
system, that enables overall
management knowledge and
ability to grow

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Important Note to be Highlighted

1 2
Management process
takes place in the
larger context of
external environment
that also can present
barrier or limitation to
an individual’s or
family’s course of
action
3
In certain situations It is more than just
and decisions, the a concept, it is an
steps may not interrelated
progress in exact concept that is
order, several steps supported by
may occur knowledge, skills,
simultaneously and tools during the
process

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 Why Manages?
• People have no other choice, big things that most
people want in life, such as job and family, require
management skill
• Management takes people from where they are to
where they want to go
• Human need to work toward as part of sense of well
being
• Management put human in the position of being in
control
• Management provides new ways of critiquing life
situations and offers new perspectives on the nature
of change

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 Who Manages?

• Everyone does
• Management should be employed every time
someone makes a decision
• Although fundamental, management is often
difficult process, as it also includes organizing,
scheduling, synthesizing, analyzing, resolving
tension, negotiating, reaching agreement,
mediating, problem solving, and communicating

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 The five factors
that Influence Management Style

Biology
History

Culture

Personality
Technology

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 Interdisciplinary Foundation
of Resource Management
Unit of Focus/
Analysis Drive

Communities, Dominant
Anthropology cultures & subcultures
Culture

Individuals Communication &

Psychology self-knowledge

Social groups, organizations, Conflict & cohesion

Sociology communities, families

Households, markets,
Economics Value, worth, scarcity
industries, economies
 What is Family
Resource Management?

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Management in Family
Management  working together
Enabling the family to engage in collective
decision making and by providing
a framework that support and maximize the
benefit to family members

act
plan

decide

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 Family Resource Management
Definition Managing Family/ Customer
Your text here Life Household Satisfaction

• The study of how individuals and families decide, plan,

and act in order to fulfill needs and accomplish goals in
an increasingly complex society (Goldsmith 2010)

• An understanding of the decisions individuals and

families make about developing and allocating resources
including time, money, material assets, energy, friends,
neighbors, and space, to meet their goals ( The National
Counsel of Family Relations)

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 Family Resource Management
Definition Managing Family/ Customer
Life Household Satisfaction

• Family management = life management

• Life management: encompasses all the decisions a person
or family will make and the way values, goals, and
resource use affect decision making over a life span
• People possess a “self” that regulate actions
• People is “self-monitoring”  assess or alter actions,
language, and reactions; bad actions = low self-monitoring
• Life management includes all the events, situations , and
decisions that make up a lifestyle

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 Family Resource Management
Definition Managing Family/
Life Household

• Family: the smallest unit of society, consist of husband-wife, or husband-

wife-child(ren), or father-child(ren), or mother-child(ren) (UU No. 10
tahun 1992)
• Family: a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or
adoption and residing together in a household (US Census Bureau)
• Household: a family or other group of individuals who live together and
act jointly in conducting most or all domestic activities, or an individual
who lives alone or lives with others but acts alone in conducting most or
all domestic activities (The American Red Cross)

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 Why learn

? Family
management?
 Challenges Faced by Family Today
• Increase of divorce rate
• 2005-2010, divorce rate increased 70%
• Increase of woman participation in work force
• Child care and education issue
• Gender issue in family relation
• Poverty
• Chronic poverty, intergenerational transfer of poverty
• Maternal and child health issue
• Increase of life expectation

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 1
Family decision making is an important
area of study because the family provides
the setting in which essential resources
are created, transformed, and transferred
 2
Managing life, whether as an individual or
as a member of a family, within the
context of the mounting pressures and
stresses, is not an easy task
 3
As the family, society, and economy are
dramatically changes, people try to adapt
to and influence these changes situation
through the choices they make 
management provides the opportunities
to shape future outcomes for benefit of
individuals, families, and communities
Are you ready to go further with
Family Resource Management?
Is there any question?
 References
• Goldsmith, EB. 2010. Resource Management for
Individual and Families, Fourth Edition. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall
• Schellenbarger S. 2005. The female midlife crisis. The
Wall Street Journal, p. D1