CASE STUDY SAMPLE ANSWER CHAPTER 12 FAMILY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Colm and Jane Brown live with their two teenagers – David aged fifteen and Yvonne aged seventeen. Monday is a hectic day in the household. Colm leaves for work at 7.30 am and returns at 5.30 pm. Jane works from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. David and Yvonne have training for the local swimming team from 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm. Yvonne also goes to guitar lessons at 6.30 pm. As they live in a rural area transport is necessary for all activities. The family try to apply a management system to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
Using the components of management (inputs, throughputs and outputs) explain how the Brown family could apply a management system to ensure that Mondays run smoothly in the household. (18) (HL 2006)
Tip!
All of this answer was not required to obtain full marks in this question. It required two points under the headings: inputs, throughputs and outputs.
Management systems are made up of three components: inputs, throughputs and outputs. Inputs
Inputs are anything brought in to the management system. They are made up of demands and resources.
Demands • Needs: Colm and Jane need to go to work to earn money to be able to provide for their family.
• Wants: Colm and Jane want their children to attend extracurricular lessons to make new friends and enjoy themselves. David and Yvonne want to attend these lessons.
• Goals: ensure that Colm and Jane attend work for the full day. Ensure that Yvonne and David à a guitar lesson for Yvonne at 18.30.
get to their lessons: à a joint swimming lesson from 16.30 to 17.30
• Values: Colm and Jane value the importance of their children participating in extracurricular lessons, as this enables David and Yvonne to develop as people and learn new skills.
Resources
• Time: Colm and Jane have time: à Jane is available after 16.00
à Colm is available after 17.30.
• Human skill: Colm and Jane have the human skill of being able to drive. • Environmental: Colm and Jane live with their family in a rural environment. This means they do not have access to public transport.
• Material: Colm and Jane have material resources including: à a car as their mode of transport
à money to send their children to the classes and pay for fuel for the car. Leaving Certificate Home Economics 265
FAMILY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND COMPONENTS OF MANAGEMENT
