Home management can be defined as a way of planning, coordinating, controlling and evaluating the use of resources in order to organize or manage a home. This is necessary especially if you want your home to be a more convenient place to stay. It makes the home systematic in many ways, providing better and quality way of living.
There are several factors or functions in management that can be applied in home making; these are planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating. These factors serve as step by step processes done from the beginning going to the last.
Planning refers to the process in
which the goals to be attained are being set and analyzed. In here, it is important to identify the goals as well as the priorities of what should be done first before the others. It should be ensured that the choices are also set. In this step, the different home resources should be considered and it should be determined whether these resources are available or not.Organizing is the process by which different resources either human or non-human are being utilized or used in order to provide maximum efficiency.
Human resources include the personnel or individual that is in charge to do a particular task. Non-human resources include the facilities as well as the
materials that are needed. Here, the coordination of the different resources of management such as the personnel, the activities as well as the facilities, time and energy should be properly coordinated and organized.Implementing is the process of carrying out the plan that was set. Here it is important to determine the problems that could possibly arise. Resolving possible problems upon the implementation is necessary to execute the plan effectively. Implementation can be considered as the main action that happens in home management.
Evaluating is the process in home management by which the goals in the plan are evaluated whether these are attained or not. The time as well as the energy efficiency should also be considered such as whether a task is attained in its allocated time or a task saves more energy or not. With evaluation, we can determine whether the implemented home management is successful or not successful.
It is really important to set a plan for a home management. A home management plan could be able to use in order to manage the home in a systematic way, providing an efficient way of living to every family member.