MANAGEMENT IN THE HOME
Management – the art of managing.
Home – the place from which a person, thing, etc. comes originally.
Why is Home Management Important?
Other
than cleaning your house, the idea of managing your home is probably the
furthest thing from your mind right now. Home management affects most home owners
when something goes wrong. However, home management is also an essential
element of improving your home. However, when you want to improve your home,
home management will help you. Home management is the process of preserving,
protecting, improving and maintaining your home. Although most of us think of
home management as maintenance, it is really the process of making the most of
your home.
Preserving Your Home
Preservation
means making something last, or keeping it alive. You perform home preservation
every time you clean your home. Painting adds beauty to your home, but also and
preserves the underlying materials. These are only a few of the things you do
today to preserve your home. Because homes are becoming more complex and
technically sophisticated, it can be difficult to know what and how to preserve.
Preservation also takes the form of beautification. Painting your walls or exterior will define your home or interior living spaces. It also protects your drywall
Preservation also takes the form of beautification. Painting your walls or exterior will define your home or interior living spaces. It also protects your drywall
Protecting Your Home
Protection
means defending or guarding against attack and shielding from danger. There are
a number of dangers your home encounters every day. As a homeowner, you need to
understand threats to your home and have the ability to predict what the most
common threats are likely to be and thwart them.
Enhancing Your Home
Enhancing
means raising something to a higher degree, intensifying and magnifying.
Enhancing your home is much the same. Few homeowners want to live in the same
home for a lifetime. By improving and enhancing your home, you not only
increase the livability of your home, but also increase its value over time.
What is The Best Way to Manage Your Home?
Homeowners
wanting to manage their homes have two choices: manual or automated. Manual
management is the process of going it alone. If you are knowledgeable about
your home, its maintenance, this strategy might work for you. An automated
solution is clearly a better choice in terms of costs and capabilities. In
fact, an effective home management solution is a home owner's most valuable
asset.
MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
“Concept
“ means an idea or theory.
"Home"
is usually referred as a place of achieving peace, development and satisfaction
for an individual, with its management predominantly concerned with the quality
of human relationship. As soon as the family is established, all its members
start thinking and working together for common goals. This gives rise to
formulate a plan of action, delegate responsibility, organize and control the
available resources to achieve the desired goals. In this context, management
becomes a means of using resources (what you have) for the attainment of family
goals (what you want). Thus, home management becomes an' essential component of
family living.
So
home management now is a challenge to every home maker to achieve development,
happiness and peace at home and in the community.
MANAGEMENT PROCESS
What is Management Process?
Those processes which are performed
by managers are called management processes. Managers are commonly involved in
planning, organizing, directing, motivating, controlling and decision-making.
Steps
in management process at home. Planning, Organizing, Controlling and Evaluating
1. Planning - thinking of all possibilities that members of the
family can accomplish to realize the set goals.
2. Organizing - the proper way of
implementing activities and using resources to achieve maximum efficiency
without setbacks. Close coordination between family members must be done and a
definite person in the family must supervise.
3. Implementing - carrying out of the plans including the
activities and all the resources. This is called "from plan to
action." Direct guidance and monitoring must be made to avoid waste of
energy and money.
4. Evaluating - checking and assessing whether the planned
activities were carries out as planned.
Decision making
1.
Decision making can be regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection
of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision
making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an
opinion of choice.
2. Decision making is an essential leadership skill.
If you can learn how to make timely, well considered decisions, then you can
lead
Importance of decision making in
Home Management
Making decisions for efficient home
management can be very difficult. It could mean being firm even if it hurts the
feelings of a family member, or even depriving a family member or some
privileges for the good of the rest.
Decisions
are often made regarding the following matters at home:
Discipline
When
our parents set rules regarding curfew, watching television on weekdays, or going
out with friends, they expect us to follow these rules. When we deliberately
disregard the rules, our parents have to impose sanctions. They may decide to
limit our privileges like prohibiting weekend meetings with your friends or
banning television for a certain period. Limits imposed by parents help put a
structure to our lives.
Prioritizing Expenses
The
family expenses for a given period are generally classified into Needs and
Wants. Needs are expense items that the family members cannot do without. Needs
include food, housing, health maintenance, and education of the children.
Maximizing the use of available
space.
When
living space is limited, decisions have to be made on who will share sleeping
and storage areas. It is ideal for parents to consult their children on this
matter to arrive at an arrangement that is acceptable to everyone.
Planning Meals.
With
a limited budget for family expenses, it is important to be able to decide on
what food to serve the family. Homemakers should be guided by this basic rule:
buy foods that are high in nutritive value but are inexpensive.
Process
of Decision Making
The Five-Step Decision Making
Process
You can adapt the familiar five-step
decision making process to decide which program or service to assess.
1.
Identifying/clarifying the
decision to be made. If the decision has not yet been isolated, it should be
identified as a first step. Sometimes the decision to be made will have been
presented to the decision maker. In those situations, Step 1 calls for the
clarification of what the decision actually entails.
2.
Identifying possible decision
options. The next step requires the decision maker to spell out, as clearly as
possible, just what the decision alternatives really are. For instance, if one
were attempting to buy a bicycle, do the decision options only consist of the
different types of bicycles, or is another option to refrain from buying a
bicycle altogether?
3.
Gathering/processing information.
Next, the decision maker collects or processes information that can help guide
the decision. If such information is already at hand, then it simply needs to
be processed; that is, studied and understood by the decision maker. If there
is no relevant information available, or if there is insufficient information,
then such information must be collected so it can be processed. The more
significant the decision, the more rigorous the information-gathering process.
4.
Making/implementing the decision.
After the information has been considered according to its relevance and
significance, a decision based on that information should be made and,
thereafter, implemented.
5.
Evaluating the decision. In
recognition of the fact that not all of one's decisions are likely to be
defensible, the final step in the five-step decision making process is to
determine whether the decision was appropriate. Ordinarily, this will be done
by ascertaining the decision's consequences.
Different
Types of Decisions
When
deciding on the most suitable decision-making method, it is important to consider
that full participation is not required in every occasion. You cannot expect in
a group all decisions to be made by the entire group. It would be an incredible
waste of time! According to the type of decision, a group might prefer
different systems with more or less people involved.
Types of Decisions
1.
Strategic
– relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and
the means of achieving them
2. Organizational
– relating to the way different aspects and parts of a group are arranged with
the aim of being more orderly and efficient
3.
Operational
– relating to the way a group or organization works on a daily basis
Most
groups seek a maximum of participation and agreement for strategic decisions,
while letting operational decisions be made in small groups or work teams.
HOME MANAGER
What is a Home Manager?
A
person who is in charge of the place from which a person, thing, etc. comes
originally.
