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Resource Management For Individuals And Families 4th Edition Elizabeth B Goldsmith - Solutions
5. What role does strategy play in resource management? A college senior, Alison, figures that she will need a minimum starting salary of $32,000 to live in Charleston, South Carolina, based on a budget she has developed. She wants to live in Charleston because she has friends there, but she is
4. Why is the United States called a throwaway society? How does the United States’ per capita consumption compare to that of China?
3. What does the Foa & Foa Resource Model illustrate?
2. What does the story about Picasso and the tourist illustrate about the nature of human capital? Name one skill, talent, or ability that you have built up over the years.
How long have you had them? Do you think certain friendships will continue over the next five years? Which ones and why?
1. Regarding friendships as a human resource, how many friends do you have?
How will a plan contribute to goal achievement?
What is important?
What do I want to accomplish? Or, what do I want to create?
4. Who will get these goods and services?
3. Where are goods and services produced?
2. How are the goods and services produced?
1. What are the goods and services going to be produced?
5. What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation? Which one do researchers know more about? Why?
4. Why does Martin Seligman say that optimism is essential for achieving goals?
3. What does Henry David Thoreau mean when he says, “My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near the ocean’s edge as I can go.” How does this statement relate to the ideas in the chapter?
2. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1979 and on graduate campuses since 1984. This has resulted in more women than men receiving bachelor’s degrees every year since 1982. Why do you suppose this happens?
1. According to the book The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable Future, businesses form value chains, a shared commitment to goals built around time and space. Likewise, families form multigenerational value chains. Describe a shared
How many months or years of training or studying did it take?
Can you remember a time when you were very motivated? When you succeeded in a public performance or in a competition? What steps led you to that performance or outcome?
How will I feel when I achieve this goal?
How will this goal benefit others?
What will I be able to do once this goal is achieved?
What benefits will attaining this goal bring to my life?
What does he mean by that? What is produced in households?
5. Economist Gary Becker says a household can be regarded as a “small factory.”
4. How is a family a system? How do families cope with change? Give an example.
3. According to the chapter content, what is the difference between positive and negative feedback?
2. “There is nothing so practical as a good theory,” says Kurt Lewin. Explain how theory is useful.
1. Compare and contrast typical homes and household tasks in 1900, in 1950, and today according to the information given in this chapter.
Apparently kitchens are more than what they seem.Why do you think they have become bigger at the same time that families have become smaller? Which of the four segments fits the household you grew up the best? Is it one segment or a combination?
Why do you think standards of hygiene changed?
How many showers or baths would be normal where you live? Does it vary by age group?
5. Lamanna and Reidmann have given a definition of family which includes a list of three common characteristics. Does your family fit these three or would you add something to the list or take something away? Explain your answer.
4. How does technology influence management style? Give an example of a technological change in the 20th or 21st century.
3. Which fields of study have affected the study of management? Select one and explain its relevance to the field of resource management.
2. Harvard economists Alberto Alesina and Paolo Giuliano say that strong family ties imply more reliance on the family as an economic unit that provides goods and services and less on outside institutions such as those found in the marketplace and government. Why does household production (doing
1. Why does Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, say that experiences might bring more satisfaction than durable goods? Do you agree or disagree?
Who manages?
Why manage?
What is management?
As you read these descriptions of singles and families, what do they tell you about how families and households are changing and what might happen in the future?
What other options does he have?
Jason has graduated but doesn’t have a job and is living with his parents while he searches for a job.Should he continue to stay at home after he finds a job and build his savings,or should he rent an apartment and try to make it on his own even though the rent will take nearly all of his
What adjustments should have been made?
Which decisions or plans worked and which ones failed?
What was learned?
Was the problem solved?
know wear school uniforms? What were the pros and cons of wearing uniforms from the students’and parents’points of view? Consider factors like cost?
Do you think school uniforms are a good or bad idea? Explain why. Did you or anyone you
how you think increased urbanization will impact how families function.
Pick one of these implications (environment,employment,or transportation) and explain
Where do I fit in?
How can I succeed?
What should I be doing with my life?
Where does the time go?
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