Syllabus

Course Code: HS202-A    Course Name: Management of family resources

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Definition, concept and objectives of home management
2. Process of Management: Planning, organizing, controlling and evaluation
3. Family life cycle and its stages
4. Qualities and responsibilities of a good home maker
5. Motivating factors of management:
 Values: Definition, classification and characteristics
 Goals: Definition, classification, characteristics and factors affecting goal setting
 Standards: Definition, classification and characteristics
6. Process of decision making:
 Definition and importance of decision making
 Types of decision
 Steps in decision making process
7. Resources: Meaning, classification and characteristics
2 1. Time Management:
 Time demand during various stages of family life cycle
 Time and utility plan: Characters to consider in making time and utility plan, steps in making time and utility plan
 Steps in management of time
2. Energy Management
 Energy demand during various stages of family life cycle
 Management of energy (Planning, Controlling and evaluating)
 Types of efforts
 Types of fatigue and various ways to overcome fatigue
3. Work Simplification:
 Definition, Importance and Techniques of work simplification
4. Ergonomics:
 Concept, significance and principles of ergonomics
5. Money Management:
 Sources of Money: Wages, Salary, Rent, Profits, Interests
 Types of Income: Regular and Irregular income
 Types of Expenditure and factors affecting family expenditure
 Types of buying: Cash Buying, Credit Buying, and other ways of buying
 Budget: Definition, importance and types of budget
 Savings and investments: Meaning, objectives and types
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