NAME: OTOO MARGARET

CLASS: 1 HOME ECONOMICS 2

SUBJECT: MANAGEMENT IN LIVING
SCHOOL: W.B.M ZION SENIOR HIGH

1. a. i. Entry – level jobs

ii. Paraprofessional jobs
iii. Professional jobs
b. i. Entry – level jobs: It requires little or no training. The training that is
needed is usually provided on the job. Example, maintenance worker,
dishwasher at restaurant, sales clerk, cleaners etc.
ii. Paraprofessional jobs: Paraprofessional jobs are trained to assist professional
people. These jobs require some formal education such as senior high school
education and some additional education at a vocational/ technical school.
Example, laboratory technicians and childcare workers, carpentry, plumbing.
iii. Professional jobs: Jobs at the professional level require 3-4 years of college
and often an advanced degree. Example, Teachers, lawyers, medical doctors,
counsellors.
1. b. i. i. Through personal contact.
ii. Check with your school counsellor.
iii. By contact employers directly.
iv. Through reading of newspapers adverts.
v. Public employment service.
vi. Social networking site.
b. ii. Application is a form on which you supply information that will help an
employer make a hiring decision
c. i. Your self
ii. Your education
iii. Your skills and aptitudes
iv. Your work experience.

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2. a. i. Healthy lifestyle can simply be described as keeping healthy, caring out
some specific activities or practices that contribute to being well in body and
mind, and being free from disease.
ii. – Maintaining health through good relationship. This includes approaches to
positive thinking how one could be helpful to neighbours.
- Through effective communication. This is one of the basic rules for
maintaining relationships. Families and groups that communicate at all levels
strengthen the psychological and emotional ties that unite.
- Showing care. To maintain relationship, you must learn to care about others,
and you must show it.
b. i. – Through having empathy.
- Through co-operation.
- Through being accepting.
- Through having a sense of humour.
ii.
Overweight Underweight
Overweight people often have high Underweight people are prone to
blood pressure which can put a stain encountering irregular menstrual
on the heart resulting in heart failure. cycles.
Many overweight people are often Underweight people with low body
mocked or discriminated against weight can also experience
because of their body size. osteoporosis (weakening or thinning
of the bones). This may be due to too
much little Vitamin D or calcium in
their diet. One may have difficulty
moving about.

c. i. Through right eating.

ii. Through exercises that contribute to good health.
Through benefits of rest and sleep.

3. a. i. Solid waste are substances that are solid in room temperature called
refuse or rubbish. E.g egg shells, broken plate, etc. whiles liquid waste are
substances that are liquid in room temperature called sewage. E.g. waste water
from the kitchen dirty/ soapy water from the bathroom.

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ii. – Refuse or garbage bins with tight fitting lids are the most appropriate
means of disposing household solid waste to prevent flies, rodents (mice and
rats) and other vectors infesting the housing environment.
- Broken bottles and cans etc. can be buried while waste paper, fabrics and dry
leaves can be buried.
- Sanitary towels must be neatly wrapped before they are disposed off. They
must never be put closet system.
- Human beings should not urinate or defecate anywhere in the environment.
Human waste must be disposed through the use of pit latrines, KVIP or through
the water closet system.
- Adequate drainage system is necessary for disposing of liquid waste. There is
the need for well-constructed gutters to carry away liquid waste from home and
the general environment.
3. b. i. – It brings spread of diseases: Most health problems occur as a result of
poor environment hygiene, example, malaria, cholera, diarrhea, etc.
- Erosion of family income: In areas where the environment is not properly
cared for people spend a lot of money on insecticides, pesticides and on medical
care because of the prevalence of insects and other organisms which cause
diseases.
- Surroundings become unsightly, thus spoiling the beauty of the environment,
it is very common to see backyards, streets and market littered with all kinds of
refuse, including human faeces in gutters, muddy, etc.
- Chocked gutters: This causes flood when it rains heavily sometimes claiming
properties and lives.
ii. Management is a purposeful behavior directed towards effective use of
resources.
3. c. i. – Someone has an idea about what is needed such a person should be
able to differentiate between needs and wants of the individual, family, or the
society and set meaningful goals and priorities.
- Someone judges or assesses what is available for use. The person should be
observant and judgmental to be able to identify or recognize the available
resources and assess them to ensure suitability and adequacy in quantity and
quality.
- Someone reconciles differences between what is wanted by different members
of the group and the means available. There is he need to appreciate the unique
needs for the individual members of the group.
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- Someone knows what is likely to happen under certain circumstances such as
sudden sickness or receiving an unexpected visitor. These unexpected
occurrences may require change in plans or new decision.
- Someone recognizes the limitations of what can be done with what is
available. The person should be able to determine the limit to which available
resources can reach.
ii. – By recognize all the resources available to the family.
- By the use of resources for a purpose or to achieve specific family goals.
- By planning the method of achieving the purposes or goals.
- By understanding the kind of home which will satisfy the individual or the
family.

4. a. i. – Manager takes responsibility for decision about goals and the use of
resources.
- Manager has the knowledge to predict possible outcomes of the alternatives
considered.
ii. – Your productivity level.
- Your work ethics.
- Your view of yourself.
- Your level of honesty with others and yourself.
- Your schedule.
b. i. – Age of person.
- Knowledge.
- Health
- Experience
- Resources
ii. – Knowledge: Knowledge is about resources and how to manage them as the
ability to apply information contribute to the success of management.
- Age of person: Age influences the level of maturity and experience of the
person. Also adult is more experience and likely to manage than an adolescent.

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- Health: The health of the individual contributes to the capacity to work and put
plans into action. A healthy person may have the energy and sound mind with
which to work.
- Resources: Materials and human resources available affect the success of
management. The more the resources, for example skills for execution, the
better the output.
4. c. – Values
- Goals
- Standards
- Needs and wants
- Events

5. a. i. Values: are what a person prices or cherishes in life.

ii. Goals: They are targets you set for yourself to accomplish.
iii. Standard: are a set of criteria for measuring goal attainment.
iv. Needs and wants: needs is a basic condition of deficiency that makes it an
obligation for a person to act to improve his/her life.
v. Events: are unexpected occurrence or incidents that are outside the control of
the individual or the family.
5.b. i. – We develop our values through the daily activities we engage in our
people we interact with.
- Values change throughout life as individual gain new experience by meeting
new people and performing new activities.
ii. – Classification of values are;
A. Intrinsic values
B. Extrinsic/ Intrumental values
5. c. i. Intrinsic values are strong values that are important and desirable whiles
Extrinsic/ Intrumental values may also be strong values but they serve as means
of attaining higher – level values.
ii. – Values are abstract and not concrete.
- Values cannot be seen.

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- Values are complex.
- Values change in importance over time.

6. a. (i) Values therefore help individuals and families to set their goals and
determine the means to achieve them and Management helps us to know what is
really important to us that we will be clear in our minds what we want to
achieve.
(ii) a. Long – term goals: these are goals that take relatively long period of time
to be achieved. Example: building a house, etc.
b. Short – term: They are goals that can be accomplished in a relatively short
time.
c. Intermediate goals: They usually serve as a means of achieving long goals
and are more definite than long – term goals. Example: saving towards building
a house, etc.
d. Means – end goals: They are simple and immediate goals set up as steps
taken to achieve other goals.
6. b. (i) – You should start by making a list of what you want in life.
- Consider your values (since values shape goals). Prioritize or arrange what
you want in order of importance.
- You have to set the long – term goals before short – term and the intrumental
goals.
- Goals should be precise or specific clear measurable or quantifiable and time
board.
(ii) Goals are things that we strive to achieve in management. They provide the
direction for the use of resources. Without goals, it would be difficult for us to
know the direction in which we going and what we are working for.
6. c. We have two (2) types of classes of standard.

7. a. (i) – Quantitative/ objective standards

- Qualitative/ subjective standards
(ii) Quantitative/ objective standards: They are measure that give precise
amount of what is desired whiles Qualitative/ subjective standards are measure

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quality; they are not easily identified by any specific measure such as taste,
texture and beauty.
b. (i) Value, goals and standard are closely inter – related in such a way that one
cannot exist without the other. Values are things that are important to us and are
primary reasons for our value.
(ii) Standards develop from our values and therefore originate from the society
in which we live. As we continue to interact with the environment and acquire
more knowledge, our values change and so do our standard.
7. c. Needs is a basic condition of deficiency that make it an obligation for a
person to act to improve his/her life.

8. a. (i) Want is something that we can do without but would like to have in
order to enhance the quality of our lives.
ii.

Self Actualization
Self –Esteem
Belonging
Safety needs
Physiological needs

b. (i) Self – actualization: This is about fulfilling the full extent of your own
potential across all the areas that are personally important to you.
- Self – esteem: This comes in two different forms. The “lower” form is the
need for the esteem of others. The ‘high’ form of esteem is self – respect.
- Belonging: Different people in different societies meet this need in different
ways. E.g. for some people, their needs for social belonging might be met
entirely within their extended family.
- Safety needs: This is about physical safety such as protection from violence.
E.g. getting into financial difficulties, being physically attacked.
- Physiological needs: These are the things that we simply cannot live without
air, food, drink, warmth, sleep and shelter.
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ii. – Self – actualized people embrace the unknown and ambiguous.
- They accept themselves, together with all their flaws.
- They prioritize and enjoy the journey, not just the destination.

9. (a) i. Needs is a basic condition of deficiency that makes it an obligation for a

person to act to improve his/her life whilst values are what a person prices or
cherishes in life.
ii. Events are unexpected incidents that are outside the control of an individual.
b. (i) – Death
- Divorce
- Personal injuries
- Unemployment
- Long – term disability
ii. Event involves drafting all the process that would make the event go
according to plan whilst management is coordinating and managing crucial
aspects of a particular event, including the team working on the event.
c. A renewable resources can replenish itself at the rate it is used, while a non –
renewable resource has a limited supply.

10. (a) i. Resources are everything in our environment which can be used to
satisfy our needs.
ii. – Renewable resources can be depleted if not properly managed or
conserved.
- Non – renewable resources are those natural resources that are depleted more
quickly then they can regenerate.