For courses in Family Resource Management. With an emphasis on decision-making, this book explains the resource management process and ways to cope with issues such as time, energy and financial constraints. Using a five-step model, it discusses how to identify needs, determine resources, and even evaluate the end-result. This fourth edition is fully revised to meet the standards needed for the CFLE designation and includes more on stress, the environment, and current economic conditions. Each chapter incorporates new case studies, new critical-thinking exercises, chapter-opening illustrations and activities that help individuals and families learn how to navigate daily life within an increasingly complex world.

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Politics & Social Sciences

Goldsmith, Elizabeth B.

Sociology

Pearson College Div

This text uses a consumerism theme to help students make intelligent decisions about resources, time, energies and purchases. Using the latest census and demographic data, the text relates examples to current events and attitudes. An emphasis has been placed on singles and/or single parent families as a demographic group throughout the text. In addition, the text takes on an interdisciplinary, global and multicultural focus. Unique coverage of management history is covered in Chapter 2 and Chapter 14 discusses future challenges of technology, family and global change and the environment.

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Cengage Learning

This text presents theories of management and shows readers how they are applied to decision making and life planning, emphasizing the ways in which life decisions and financial choices impact the family. The coverage reflects nontraditional cultures and family structures, as well as societal trends and lifestyle changes that may influence the decision-making process.

Economics

The text applies the modern management theory and evaluation to the decision making and problem solving within the family unit. The text applies principles of planning, implementing and evaluating needs in household settings. The position that sees management as a process approach sets the text apart from earlier texts on family management.

Resource Management for Individuals and Families (with InfoTrac)

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Goldsmith, Elizabeth B.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Goldsmith, Elizabeth B.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Goldsmith, Elizabeth B.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Resource Management for Individuals and Families

Resource Management for Individuals and Families (with InfoTrac)