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  WHAT IS A FAMILY? Contemporary families are diverse in nature, reflecting the socioeconomic environments surrounding them. The idea that a traditional family exists, from which students can compare and contrast other nontraditional family units, is nonproductive to the goals and objectives of family service providers. It is necessary, however, to categorize and define families […]

Related Credo Articles Full text Article leisure pursuits in Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism/leə pəsjuts/ plural noun entertainment hobbies, things you do during your free time, for relaxation or enjoyment …19   Despite the challenges facing families across time, the family remains the world’s oldest form of relationship, a universal phenomenon (Sokalski, 1994). For

International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family SearchBrowsePrevious ArticleNext Article The second edition of the International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family revises and expands Macmillan’s 1995 Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, adopting an international, cross-cultural approach to such diverse topics as adolescent parenthood, family planning, cohabitation, widowhood, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, codependency and

Conclusion More could be said about managing human effort, environmental resources, and financial resources. This entry briefly touches the surface of a more than century-old discipline that affects every aspect of daily life. What management does is provide a framework, a way of looking at things that can be applied to a variety of situations.

  Time, Work, Family, and Stress Time use and the direction of human effort are integral to the study of management. Queen Elizabeth I said on her deathbed, “All my possessions for a moment of time.” Time is generally considered the ultimate resource because it is a resource all people, rich or poor, share. In

Practical Applications and a Model of Managerial Action Because management explores the workings of everyday life, it is both complex and practical. To show the interaction of various management components, a model of managerial action using the systems approach is given in Figure 1. In the model, for example, demands and values lead to planning

Conceptual Framework and History Resource management has a long history and an interdisciplinary base borrowing from and contributing to such fields as economics, organizational behavior, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. The discipline was originally called home management—with an emphasis on work simplification and household efficiency—but since the postmodern period (beginning in the 1960s) the emphasis has

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT “What is Family Resource Management and why is it important to today’s American family?” Goldsmith, E. B., & GOLDSMITH, E. B. (2003). Resource Management. In J. J. Ponzetti Jr. (Ed.), International encyclopedia of marriage and family (2nd ed.). Farmington, MI: Gale. Retrieved from   RESOURCE MANAGEMENT from International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family

  Build Psychological Hardiness Before you can take that first hop, however, you have to take a step forward in your attitude. For example, Don Bennett didn’t just leap from a hospital bed to the cliffs of Mount Rainier. His initial battle was with himself. He told us how he had to stop feeling sorry

GENERATE SMALL WINS While we were just beginning our work on this edition, we got a call from Don Bennett, one of the pioneering people we interviewed for the first edition of The Leadership Challenge. With great excite- ment in his voice, he told us that he’d just returned from Argentina, where he had presented