6th Edition

Foundations of Family Resource Management

By Elizabeth B. Goldsmith Copyright 2023
532 Pages 122 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

532 Pages 122 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Foundations of Family Resource Management uses the lenses of consumer science, management, and economics, and beyond to help students make intelligent decisions about resources, time, and energies at the individual and family level. It has a strong interdisciplinary, global, and multicultural focus. This sixth edition brings in new material on millennials, delayed marriage, household... Read more

Preface Acknowledgments

  1. Management Today
  2. Management History and Theories
  3. Values, Attitudes, Goals, and Motivation
  4. Resources
  5. Decision-Making and Problem Solving
  6. Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating
  7. Communication
  8. Managing Human Needs
  9. Managing Time
  10. Managing Work and Family
  11. Managing Stress and Fatigue
  12. Managing Environmental Resources
  13. Managing Finances
  14. Managing Tomorrow

Glossary

Index

Biography

Elizabeth B. Goldsmith is a Professor Emerita in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Florida State University and Research Affliated Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech University, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar, has been awarded grants from Stanford University, the Smithsonian, and Duke University, and has served as Domestic Policy Advisor for the White House and as an advisor on bankruptcy education for the U.S. Dept. of Justice.

"In this newest edition of her book, Prof Goldsmith presents us with updated insights and tools crucial to the understanding and implementation of efficient and sustainable resource management within different types of contemporary households and families. The chapters are rich in data, theories, examples, case studies and critical thinking tasks, yet also refer to popular personalities and stories making this a student-friendly textbook which merits having a central place in tertiary level Family Resource Management classes."

Suzanne Piscopo, Associate Professor of Home Economics, University of Malta, Malta.