Management Of Family Resources

Lesson 29 : The Management Process In Family Living-Evaluating

Introduction

Evaluation is the final stage of management process. It consists of looking back over the steps of planning, organising, implementing and controlling to determine as accurately as possible, how good a Job has been done. Evaluating is assessing the progress in management subsystem and in goal attainment. The main functions of evaluation are assessing the impact of management an quality of living across time and consideration of possible improvement in the management processes. It is analyzing the results and judging the effectiveness of the plan. It helps to understand the reasons why outcomes are different from the desired goals. In managing family living the reasons why outcomes are different from the desired goals in managing family living, the measure by which relative success or failure of a plan can be evaluated is the extent to which it has the advanced the family goals. The more definite and clear cut the goals, the more accurate evolution can be alone.

Evaluating, as a distinct phase of management, goes beyond checking; it analyzes results and judges effectiveness. It attempts to discover reasons why outcomes vary from the projected or desired goal. It is a broader, longer view that analyzes impacts of action on the total pattern of living. Although evaluation centers around the outcome, it has many functions. In addition to analyzing the outcome, it provides information that can be used as a guideline.

Checking on management effectiveness or efficiency requires analysis, honesty, objectivity and a sound basis for judgment. In managing family living, the measure by which relative success or failure of a plan can be evaluated is the extent to which it has advanced the family’s goals. The more definite and clear- cut the goals, the more accurate evaluation can be.

The positive or negative feedback promotes either continuity or change in the system. Positive feedback, reveals differences between expected and actual outcomes, acknowledges factors that support the deviation and favours an increase in or continuation of the deviation which is really a change in goal.

Negative feedback reveals differences between actual and devised output and influences the system to reduce the deviation so that the output stays within the established by goals or adjectives set.