Resource Management & Family Resource Management: Goals, Demands, & Types, Schemes and Mind Maps of Decision Making

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Resource Management

Management is the efficient use of resources in order to achieve a goal.

Examples include:

• Parents use money to buy a family home
• Team manager organises players for tournament
• School principal employs teachers to deliver syllabus to students

Resource Management

Purpose of Family Resource Management

The purpose of Family Resource Management is:

 To use available resources efficiently in order to achieve goals

 To improve the quality of family life

 To enable family members to achieve their full potential

Types Of Management Systems

Open system: Family uses external systems to achieve goals e.g. education system, health system

Closed system: All activities occur within the family. They do not use other systems to achieve goals e.g. Amish Community is self sufficient

Overall system: This looks at all tasks and available resources

Management Systems

Components of Management

There are three components of management:

1. Inputs
   2. Throughputs
2. Outputs

Inputs

Inputs are defined as anything brought into the management system.

Inputs are made up of:

A: Demands B: Resources

Demands include:

Needs

Goals

Wants

Values

Resources are:

Human

Economic

Material

Environmental

Demands Demands

Goals What one strives to achieve End result that individual plans and works for Goals can be short, medium or long term

Examples: Short term goal  Pass class test

Medium term goal Achieve good Leaving Cert

Long term goal  Good job

Values Give meaning to life Belief of what is right and wrong This is personal to individuals

Examples: Honesty, being vegetarian, buying Irish only products

Resources Resources

Human

What people can offer  Time, knowledge and skills

Material

Books and Equipment

Planning Organising Implementing

Create plan

Identify resources

Consider alternatives

Allocating tasks

Allocating resources:

- Task centred

• Person centred

Put plan into action

Take control

Adjustment may be necessary

Throughputs

Throughputs consist of three processes: 1: Planning 2: Organising (^) 3: Implementing

Outputs

To access the end result of inputs and throughputs, it is important to ask:

 Have the goals been reached?

 Have the values changed?

 Have the needs been met?

 Were the wants fulfilled?

 Were all resources used?

Evaluation of the plan is useful for planning new tasks or setting new goals e.g.

consider what went well, what did not go well and how this would impact on

future planning.

Communication

Communication is the process of exchanging information between people.

• It may be verbal or non verbal
• Effective communication occurs when the person receiving the information interprets it in the way that the sender intended

Effective communication:

• Is a two way process
• Involves sharing of ideas
• Helps achieve goals
• Is necessary in conflict resolution

Attributes Affecting Management

• Composition of family  Number of people in the family, presence of persons with special needs, one parent or two parent family
• Stages in life cycle  Priorities are different for a family with or without children. As children get older, they become part of the decision making process
• Employment patterns  Number of family members working, whether employment is inside or outside the home, type of employment, hours of employment
• Socio-Economic status  People from different socio economic backgrounds have different needs. Lower socio economic backgrounds place emphasis on needs whilst people from higher socio economic backgrounds place emphasis on luxuries