Management is a planned activity directed towards the realization of familyvalues and satisfaction of wants of the family members. Management is a behavioral process that recognizes the actions and reactions of persons in living situations as they use the resources to achieve the desired goals. Home management is the purpose behavior involved in the creation and use of resources to achieve the familygoals. Here effective use of resources becomes the focus of management.
Every individual or family does management, but some may be good managers and some may not be. But all manage with some degree of competence. The more skilled a person is in the process of management, the better will be the quality of living. Management is not only means to achieve the desired goals, but it is also a means to accomplish the self development, self actualization and renewal. Management consists of all behavioral processes experienced by people as they identify and cope with problems of setting goals, establishing and testing values and norms, identifying roles, solving conflicts, establishing power- authority lines with in the family and influence patterns outside the family, perpetuating themselves and communicating with others in the solution of all these problems in their own particular situation.
Thus management is a process with a series of specific functions that bring about the desired results. The process provides an organised method of achieving the individual wants. The use of resources and the extent of achievement of familygoals depend on the managerial interest, ability and leadership of each individual member of the family or group.
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