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· Male-female unmarried couples – with or without children
· Same sex unmarried couples
· Female householders with no husband present
· Male householders with no wife present
· Blended Families
· Grandparents raising grandchildren |
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| Societal Expectations of families |
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-Focuses on how to deal with changes that occur throughout the life cycle
-Examines individuals and families decide, plan, and act in order to fulfill needs and accomplish goals in a changing and complex society |
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| Changes occurring around the globe |
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-By 2050, 75% of the world’s population will live in cities
Implications: environment, employment, transportation, housing and overall quality of life
-Aging populations: Japan/ US
Implications: Long-term care, adequate financial resources, medical insurance, increased pressure on families (emotional and financial) |
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-the process of using resources to achieve goals
-includes the functioning, actions, thinking, and events that happen over time |
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| Demands (as defined in management) |
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| -the problems, needs, wants or goals that are behind the reasoning for managing |
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-to provide new ways of critiquing life situations and change
-to reduce chaos, confusion, helplessness
-to find solutions to problems |
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-to provide new ways of critiquing life situations and change
-to reduce chaos, confusion, helplessness
-to find solutions to problems |
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| Influences on management styles |
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-history
-biology
-culture
-personality
-technology |
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| Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs |
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-physiological needs must be at least partially met before higher-order needs such as safety, a sense of belonging and love, self-esteem, and self-actualization can be fulfilled
-self-actualizers fully integrate the components of their personality, or self
1. self actualization
2. esteem
3. belongingness and love
4. safety
5. physiological needs |
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Step 1: identify the problem
Step 2: value clarification
Step 3: identifying resources
Step 4: decision making, planning, and implementing
Step 5: feedback |
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Influenced by: moral judgment, response to others, commitments to personal goals, commitment to organizational goals
Differ by: social class, resource availability, stage of the life cycle, life experiences, religion, ethnicity |
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-absolute and relative
-intrinsic and extrinsic
-traditional, personal, and professional
-instrumental (end states of existence) and terminal (modes of conduct) |
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-extreme and definitive, such values can be described as black and white
-"honesty is the best policy" |
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-interpreted based on the context
-shades of gray |
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-people accomplish more when they set goals
-goals must be reasonable, affordable, and within the resources
-goals should be clearly formed and simply stated |
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-by time: short term, intermediate, or long term
-by role: personal, professional, societal, or familial
-by type: primary or secondary
- Primary: formed to influence process and progress
- Secondary: goals motivate the individual and ultimately lead to and complement the primary goal |
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-What resources are available: knowledge of demands identifies the want-satisfying characteristics of resources
-Useful Characteristics:characteristics have want-satisfying capacities which facilitates creativity in use
-Amount Available:to develop feasible plans and measure quantity, ideally quantity of characteristics
-Unit Worth: what each unit of the resource is worth |
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| -Are real and touchable or capable of being appraised such as jewelry, land, or homes |
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| -Cannot be touched such as integrity, confidence, and literacy |
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-All the means that are vested in people that can be used to meet demands
-cognitive insights, affective attributes, psychomotor skills, health, energy
-Most numerous, valuable, and easily forgotten resources
-The skills and abilities which people possess are resources not the people themselves |
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modes of knowing that allow the individual to:
-identify pertinent resources
-analyze alternatives in decision making
-evaluate outcomes |
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-affective expression and feelings
-used directly as resources in interpersonal exchanges e.g. expressions of gratitude
-are pervasive (consistent) they are not "used up“
-are subjective (particular) and not transferable |
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-Is the total sum an individuals capabilities, capacities, skills and abilities
-Educators, Social workers, and Counselors invest in human capital
-Government invest in human capital:
Free lunch program, Head Start program, Educational grants and financial assistance |
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1. define the decision
2. estimate the resources made
3. consider the alternatives
4. imagine the consequences of an alt.
5. develop an action plan and implement it
6. evaluate the decision |
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| – values lie at the Root of all decisions |
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| 3 styles of family decision making |
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Accommodation: the family reaches an agreement by accepting the point of view of the dominant person
Consensual: the family reaches a mutual agreement equally acceptable to all individuals
De facto: occurs when no one in the family really cares or is interested |
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-Technical
Single objective
Concerns include allocating resources to achieve a single goal
-Economic
Multiple objectives,
allocate scarce resources among multiple goals |
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| - process of making a choice between two or more alternatives, is an integral part of the overall management process |
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-a process using cognitive skills to envision what is to be done
-a series of decisions about future standards and/or sequences of action
-design of actions in pursuit of a goal |
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-Standards are the criteria for action or operational criteria (acceptable/non acceptable)
-Common Standards:
-Performance standards
-Standards of behavior
-Standards of measure
-Standard of living |
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| - Putting plans and procedures into action and controlling actions is |
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| Dovetailing - multitasking) |
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– giving concurrent attention to two or more tasks
-NOT EFFECTIVE |
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| – giving attention to two or more tasks intermittently until they are completed |
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– one action succeeds another until the goal is achieved
-Independent: Activities take place one at a time, Each activity is independent of another
-Interdependent:One activity must be completed before another takes place |
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Input – demands problems to be solved
Throughput – personal subsystem & managerial subsystem
Output – end results level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction |
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