Chapter – 4

Resources Management

In this post, we have given the Important Questions of Class 11 Home Science Chapter 4 ( Resources Management) in English. These Important Questions are useful for the students who are going to appear in class 14 board exams.

Board	CBSE Board, UP Board, JAC Board, Bihar Board, HBSE Board, UBSE Board, PSEB Board, RBSE Board
Textbook	NCERT
Class	Class 11
Subject	Home Science
Chapter no.	Chapter 4
Chapter Name	(Resources Management)
Category	Class 11 Home Science Important Questions in English
Medium	English

Chapter 4 Resources Management

Short Questions (2Marks)

Q1. What do you mean by resources?

Ans. Resources is those which we need for completing any task or achieving any goal for example time, things, energy, interest etc.

Q2. What do you mean by human resources explain with example?

Ans. Human resources are central for carrying out any activity. Resources can be developed by any person by their abilities and training. For example gaining knowledge in any work or field.

Q3. In how many ways we categories resources?

Ans. we categories resources in three ways

Classification of resources

• Human resource/ non-human resource
• Individual resource/ shared resource
• natural resource/ community resource

Q4. What do you mean by non-human resources explain with example?

Ans. This is a resource which everyone needs to fulfill their goal Desire and complete their work. For example – money, material etc.

Q5. What do you mean by Management Process? How many steps of management process have?

Ans. Managing Resources means which resources are available to us in our surroundings we need to use them properly and carefully.

Management process involves five aspects

• Planning
• Organising
• Implementing
• Controlling
• Evaluation

Q6. What do you mean by planning? Explain with example?

Ans. Planning Is the first step in any management system in planning. We produce a plan or a screen for action for achieving our goals by using availability of resources.

For example, if we are planning Annual Day in our school and our goal is that we will successfully celebrate our annual day which is called our goal. If there is two month left for celebrating annual day that we called interval in a planning system we plan all the resources which we need for achieving this goal.

Q7. In any Management process what do you mean by evaluation?

Ans. This is the last stage of management process this is very important step which tell us the result of the outcome of the goal which we are planning.

Q8. “There is always a substitute for each and every resource “Explain this statement?

Ans. This mean every resource has substitute if any resource is not available to us then the substitute of that resource is also available. We use to fulfill our goals by organising these resources if anyone resources not available then we replace that resource and achieve our goals

Q9. How natural resources are important? How we have to use these natural resources?

Ans. The natural resource which is available in our surrounding are called natural resources like plants, water, air etc. These resources are equally present for all the human beings. This depends on the person how they will use these resources in what all ways. We have to use it carefully and protect our natural resources.

Q10. How many steps planning have and how they are related to each other?

Ans. Planning has different steps; these basic steps are –

• Identifying the problem,
• Identifying different alternatives,
• Choosing between alternatives,
• Acting to carry out the plan putting the plan into action
• Accepting the consequences.

Long Answer (3 Mark)

Q1. How many type of Resources we have? Explain in detail?

Ans. Classification of resources

• Human resource/ non-human resource
• Individual resource/ shared resource
• Natural resource /community resource

1. Human resource – Human resources are central for carrying out any activity. Resources can be developed by any person by their abilities and training. For example gaining knowledge in any work or field.

Non-human resource

Money – This is a resource which everyone needs to fulfill their goal desire and complete their work. Money as a resource is not equally available to everyone in equal amount. Money is a limited resource we need to spend this resource according to our needs and requirements we should not waste money.

Material Resource –Material Resource means any material which we used to complete our task for example furniture, clothes, stationary etc. Like for completing School homework we need material resource like pencil, copy, stationery etc.

2. Individual and Shared ResourceIndividual resource – They are those resources which a person relate to them like my bag, my clothes, my house, my car etc. They can be human and non-human resource.

Natural resource /Community Resources

Natural resource – The natural resource which is available in our surrounding are called natural resources like plants, water, air etc. These resources are equal present for all the human beings. This depends on the person how they will use these resources in what all ways. We have to use carefully and protect our natural resources.

Community Resources – These resources are available to people when they are part of any community. They can be government resources which are provided by government they can be human and non-human resource. Like Road, Park, Banquet Hall, post office, library, Hospital etc. they all are maintained by community only.

Q2. Human resources are known as Central for completing any task Explain this?

Ans.

• Human resources are Central for carrying out any activity Resources can be developed by any person by their abilities and training for example gaining knowledge in any work or field.
• This can be developed by any person skills and experiences
• This helps us in life interest will help us finding out our goals.

Q3. ‘Do you know that we need management of our resources for completing any activity?’ What do you mean by Management process in this? Explain planning as a step of management process?

Ans. Managing Resources means which resources are available to us in our surroundings. We need to properly and carefully use these resources so that there is no wastage of these resources and we will achieve our goals. For example some people use money in an effective manner by preparing budgets and with planning and some people without planning their resources waste their money by buying anything random.

Management process involves five aspects

• Planning
• Organising
• Implementing
• Controlling
• Evaluation

Planning-

• Planning is the first step in any management system. In planning we produce a plan or a screen for action for achieving our goals by using availability of resources.
• In planning we need to select course of actions like what is our present situation where do we need to reach the gap interval and how we can reach to a desired goals in these parameters we have to plan our goals.

Q4. Differentiate between Natural and Community resources?

Ans.

Natural Resources

• The natural resource which is available in our surrounding are called natural resources.
• Like plants, water, air etc.
• These resources are equally present for all the human beings. This depends on the person how they will use these resources.

Community Resources

• These resources are available to people when they are part of any community.
• Like road, park, banquet hall, post office, library, hospital etc.
• They can be government resources which are provided by government they can be human and non-human resource.

Long Question (4 Marks)

Q1. What do you mean by Management process explain in detail?

Ans. Managing Resources means which resources are available to us in our surroundings. We need to properly and carefully use these resources so that there is no wastage of these resources and we will achieve our goals .for example some people use money in an effective manner by preparing budgets and with planning and some people without planning waste their money by buying anything.

Management process involves five aspects

• Planning
• Organising
• Implementing
• Controlling
• Evaluation

Planning-

• Planning Is the first step in any management system. In planning we produce a plan or a screen for action for achieving our goals by using availability of resources.
• In planning we need to select course of actions like what is our present situation where do we need to reach the gap interval and how we can reach to a desired goals in these parameters we plan. Our goals.

Organising – We collect arrange are resources in order to implement plants in an effective and efficient manner. For example for celebrating annual day we need chairs for sitting, we need food, invite guests, we need to prepare all the programs which are going to perform on annual day, we need to do flower arrangement, we need to do decoration and for all of these we need to organize resources.

Implementation – Implementation means carrying out the prepared plan whichever goal we want to achieve that work or goal is finally implementing. For example the annual day for which we are planning. We call it implementation.

Controlling – Controlling helps to monitor the outcome of activities and make sure that the planner being implemented correctly. By controlling we need to ensure that if there is any problem arises how we need to overcome that problem and achieve our goals for example in annual day if we invite five guest and six or more are coming then we need to arrange the food and sitting for them.

Evaluation-

• This is the last stage of management process. This is very important step which tell us the result of the outcome of the goal which we are managing or planning..
• This gives the feedback that what we are planning for and what result we obtained is there any difference between them or what we need to do to correct it for future.

Q2. Explain planning as a management process with the help of example?

Ans. Planning-

• Planning is the first step in any management system in planning we produce a plan or a screen for action for achieving our goals by using availability of resources.
• In planning we need to select course of actions like what is our present situation where do we need to reach the gap interval and how we can reach to a desired goals in these parameters we plan. Our goals.
• Planning have different steps these basic steps are identifying the problem, identifying different alternatives, choosing between alternatives, acting to carry out the plan, putting the plan into action accepting the consequences.
• for example if we are planning Annual Day in our school and our goal is that we will successfully celebrate our annual day which is called our goal if there is 2 months left for celebrating annual day that we called interval in a planning system we plan all the resources which we need for achieving this goal.

Q4. ‘All the resources are accessible’explain this statement?

Ans. This means how is resources are easily available to us as compared to other resources. We can also say that resources are easily available to some person and some it is difficult to find resources. For example money is not easily available to all the persons some people will find it easily and some people get after so much struggle.

Long Answer (5 Marks)

Q1. What do you mean by Resource Management? Explain any two steps of resource management?

Ans. Managing Resources means which resources are available to us in our surroundings we need to properly and carefully use these resources so that there is no wastage of these resources and we will achieve our goals. For example some people use money in an effective manner by preparing budgets and with planning and some people without planning waste their money by buying anything.

1. Organising – We collect arrange are resources in order to implement plans in an effective and efficient manner. For example celebrating for annual day – we need chairs for sitting, we need food, invite guests, we need to prepare all the programs which are going to perform on annual day, we need to do flower arrangement, we need to do decoration and for all of these we need to organize resources.

2. Implementation – Implementation means carrying out the prepared plan whichever goal we want to achieve that work or goal is finally implementing for example the annual day for which we are planning. We call it implementation.

Q2. In your school your annual exam is going to held and in this annual exam only 3 months are left You want to achieve good marks in the annual exam so how you will manage your resources for achieving this goal?

Ans.

• As we know 3 months are left in annual exam and we want to score good marks. For that first we have to do the planning for achieving our goal. We need to plan a scheme, a time table on daily basis. We have to study some topic; subject wise. We need to list down all the resources which we need for scoring good marks and plan things according to that time span.
• On the basis of our plan now we organize our resources for achieving our goals like we make notes, arrange books for scoring good marks.
• Now the day when exam is held come and we have to give 100% which we have prepared for these exams for scoring good marks.
• While implementation of goals, controlling will go side by side like we have prepared all the subjects for scoring good marks.
• After completion of the exams now its the result day and that is the evaluation we can evaluate what we have planned for like scoring good marks, did we acheive that or not. If not we have to plan in a proper manner for future for scoring good marks.

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