Dissertations / Theses: 'Volunteer work'

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Malone, Cheryl Knott 1954. "LABOR WITHOUT PAY: WOMEN'S VOLUNTEER WORK IN AMERICAN HOSPITALS, 1945-1965 (ARIZONA)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291190.

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Söderberg, Frida. "Volunteer that makes a difference or difference that makes a volunteer? : A study on the apprehension of roles and functions of European volunteers in Ghana." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för livsvetenskaper, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3908.

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Westerners have for centuries been present in Africa with different motives. The most recent phenomenon is young volunteers that, instead of being tourists in a normal sense, go to the continent to work within organizations as for example teachers. This study, where the empirical material is based on qualitative interviews done with twelve European volunteers during a minor field study in Ghana, aims to examine what apprehension the volunteers have of their role and function. To create an understanding for the purpose, questions on the meaning of the concept of volunteering, motives and outcomes of the volunteering experience as well as the view of westerners and Ghanaians have been asked. In the light of postcolonialism and volunteer tourism, the study shows a number of factors that explains motives and the understanding of the concept, with a focus on the learning and growth of the volunteer. The outcome circles around knowledge on development issues and aid work as well as being able to have an impact on Ghanaians and development in Ghana. The volunteers also show revulsion from other westerners (that want to “help” and have a “colonial” behavior) and Ghanaians, but at the same time they prefer to spend time with westerners. The volunteers’ apprehension of their role and function is found to be bipartite; expressed is that they are in Ghana to experience and to learn, but understood is also that they see it as their task to spread their view of life, help the locals and contribute to development. A possible explanation to this contradiction might be that the volunteers, grown up in a time where they have been taught “how they should think” about “Us” and “Them”, distance themselves from everything that disaffirm their belief. However, at the same time they are deeply influenced by the western society’s way of focusing on differences between people, differences with signatures such as “developed” and “underdeveloped”. It creates a complexity of knowing something but not being able to live by it.
Med en historisk tillbakablick ser man att västerlänningar länge och med olika motiv har varit närvarande i Afrika. De senaste i raden är unga volontärer som, istället för att vara turist i vanlig bemärkelse, åker till kontinenten för att arbeta inom organisationer som till exempel lärare. Denna studie, vars empiriska material bygger på en fältstudie i Ghana där kvalitativa intervjuer gjorts med tolv europeiska volontärer, syftar till att undersöka vilken förståelse volontärerna har av sin roll och funktion. För att skapa en idé kring syftet har frågor kring volontärkonceptets betydelse, motiv och effekter av volontärupplevelsen samt synen på västerlänningar och ghaneser ställts. I ljuset av postkolonialism och volontär turism visar studien på ett antal faktorer som förklarar motiv och volontärkonceptets betydelse, med fokus kring vikten av volontärens läroprocess och mognad. Effekterna handlar om kunskap kring utvecklingsfrågor och biståndsarbete samt en upplevelse av att kunna påverka ghaneser och utvecklingen i Ghana. De visar också på avståndstagande från både västerlänningar (som vill ”hjälpa” och har ”kolonialt” beteende) och ghaneser, samtidigt som de helst umgås med de förra. Volontärernas förståelse av sin roll och funktion upplevs tvådelad; uttryckt förstås den som någon som är i Ghana för att uppleva och lära sig, men det utläses också att de ser som sin uppgift att sprida sin livssyn, hjälpa lokalbefolkningen och medverka till utveckling. En möjlig förklaring till denna motsägelsefullhet kan vara att volontärerna, uppväxta i en tid där de lärt sig ”hur de ska tänka” om ”Vi” och ”Dem”, tar avstånd från allt som motsäger den synen men samtidigt är de också djupt påverkade av det västerländska samhällets fokus på skillnader mellan folk, skillnader med förtecken så som ”utvecklade” och ”underutvecklade”. Det skapar en komplexitet av att vara medveten om något men inte kunna leva efter det.

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Jones, Andrea L. "Volunteer Guardians in the Community| A Mixed Methods Exploration of a Complex Volunteer Task." Thesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3563338.

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Demographic trends indicate a significant increase in the number of adults over 65, especially those 85 and older (Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, 2010). Community services may be reduced or eliminated due to fiscal constraints (NGA, 2010). Recruiting and retaining volunteers to act as legal guardians (VGs) for incapacitated older adults may be essential in meeting increased community service demand for guardians.

This mixed method study built upon prior research to include themes of qualitative semi-structured interviews and quantitative results from the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI; Clary et al., 1998; Clary, Snyder, & Stutkas, 1996) with VGs from a mid-Atlantic not-for-profit guardianship agency. Quantitative data suggest VG motivations score higher than the comparison sample on subscales measuring factors, such as Values (humanitarian, altruistic reasons), and lower than comparison sample on the Career, Enhancement, and Protective factor subscales. Qualitative data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide and analyzed using the Generic Inductive Qualitative Method (Hood, 2007). Interviews conducted with 12 volunteer guardians indicated themes related to why VGs chose this task, such as 'helping the unbefriended (Values factor),' 'giving back/paying forward,' and 'learning to help.' Themes illustrative of how the guardians performed this volunteer task included 'how they with conflict,' 'need for a good match (client to volunteer),' and 'asking for help.'

In addition, findings seem to indicate that volunteers with human service training employed a more directive case management style. Volunteers without human service training provided more collaborative, functionary guardian services. Qualitative interview data were also collected from six board and agency staff and indicated a difference in perception between administration and VGs related to the 'need for a good match,' as well as 'recruitment' methods.

Implications for practice include the need to provide more support and assistance to volunteers without human service training, understanding the need for guardian-client matches that would be more compatible with the guardian type, as well as a need for improved, specific recruiting methods. Implications for future research include the development of a model to recruit and train volunteer guardians that could be replicated by social service, faith-based, and other not-for-profit agencies.

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Coles, James. "Orthodox youth ministry training volunteer leaders /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Mojza, Eva J. "The Interface of Volunteer Work and Paid Work Benefits of Volunteering for Working Life /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-71594.

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Salloum, Jessy Jean, and Francesca Maria Augusta Twohy-Haines. "VOLUNTEER SERVICE AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AGAINST PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/822.

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Burnout is a prominent issue among the social work profession. Methods to mitigate the effects of burnout have received considerable attention in social work research. This study focuses on a potential method of coping with burnout; volunteerism. While literature is scarce regarding the effects of volunteerism on burnout rates among social workers, studies in related fields such as nursing, public-sector public administrators, and nonprofit workers indicate that volunteerism has potential benefits against burnout. This study’s purpose is to determine whether involvement in volunteer service is related to lower rates of burnout among social workers. This quantitative study uses data from a non-random purposive sample of 442 social workers who completed a survey posted on the social work board of an online forum, Reddit and the networking site, LinkedIn. Survey questions captured participants’ demographic, volunteerism, and burnout rates using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS). Analysis of the data led to findings which do not support the original hypothesis of this study or the available literature. A plausible explanation is, that for social workers, the volunteer work is so like their profession that engaging in volunteerism does not provide the respite necessary for recovery from the effects of burnout.

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Damons, Bruce Peter. "A collaboratively constructed process model for understanding and supporting the work of the community volunteer in a community school." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/15049.

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This thesis sought to explore how community volunteers could be recruited, supported and sustained to assist a community school operating in difficult socioeconomic conditions in achieving basic school functionality. Through a collaborative process, the participants in the study attempted to address a significant gap in the literature, namely how this could be achieved in a way that would be beneficial both to the community volunteers and to the school itself. Based on existing literature, the vast majority of South African schools are struggling to reach the basic functionality levels required in terms of legislation. My interest in this topic was piqued while serving as principal of one such school; hence the focus in this thesis on whether schools would benefit in terms of achieving functionality if they partnered with the communities in which they are located. However, communities are seldom actively involved in the schools and school activities on an ongoing daily basis. In this thesis, I argue for an opportunity for schools and the community to collaborate in a way that would be mutually beneficial. In this, I was guided by the School-Based Complementary Learning Framework (SBCLF) in gaining a greater understanding of how multiple stakeholders could support a school to obtain basic functionality. A key stakeholder is the community in which a school is located, and the multidimensional framework provided a framework to understand why the community would want to get involved in the school. Following a Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) design, I recruited 15 community volunteers from the existing pool at my then school; some of whom had been volunteering for over twelve years. We formed an action learning set where we collaboratively sought to understand the processes and conditions needed to recruit, support and sustain community volunteers and their involvement in the school. From this action learning set emerged a key advisors’ set, comprising five members of the action learning set, who were entrusted with the responsibility of planning, preparing and analysing the action learning set meetings. Transcripts and visual artefacts from the action learning set meetings and a focus group meeting of the school management team were analysed to generate data, complemented by secondary sources, such as documents. This participatory approach to data generation allowed the voice of every participant to be heard; agency was increased through active participation; and the sense of affiliation to the group was deepened. The iterative design of the research process further ensured that the participants also engaged in a critical discourse analysis of the emerging data, of which the trustworthiness was enhanced through the use of dialogic and process, catalytic, rhetoric, democratic and outcome validity. The emergence of the data through this collaborative engagement was underpinned by the ethical values of mutual respect; equality and inclusion; democratic participation; active learning; making a difference; collective action; and personal integrity. The findings revealed that community volunteers did add immense value to the school by supporting teaching and learning processes. However, the community volunteers also harboured expectations of material support and opportunities to develop skills. In addition, the study revealed that the hierarchical culture and structures present in most South African schools need to become more democratic and collaborative, with those working to make the school more functional, including community volunteers, being valued, acknowledged and supported. The participants also constructed their understanding of what a community school should be and do and how it should serve the interests of the children from the community. A process model was constructed from these findings regarding on ways to recruit, sustain and support community volunteers involved in community schools, specially designed so that schools could adapt it to suit individual contexts. This study is unique; I am not aware of any similar study ever having been conducted in a community school in South Africa. Furthermore, the collaborative approach used in the study helped ensure that the methodology used could be of value to principals and other school stakeholders in addressing the various complex challenges that confront schools in these contexts. Also, the findings will add to the theoretical body of knowledge around volunteerism, especially in difficult socioeconomic conditions.

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Cappar, Joseph C. Jr. "Calling in Volunteer Work Predicts Eudaimonic Well-Being Among Third Age Adults." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10196308.

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Research rooted in the existentialist theory of the will to meaning has demonstrated that individuals who experience a sense of calling to their work realize personal well-being benefits. An assertion in the literature is that work may be understood as employed work or volunteer work. The calling research, however, has been limited to late-stage first age adults preparing for employment or second age adults currently employed. Calling among third age adults, post-employment and engaged in volunteer work, has not been examined thoroughly and is not well understood. In the US, the number of third age adults is growing by over 10,000 per day and by the year 2030 will have more than doubled since the census of 2000. The coming decades will see a significant need to address the well-being concerns of the nation’s aging population. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to extend the understanding of the calling construct by examining the relationship between calling and eudaimonic well-being, and the potentially moderating effect of religiosity on that relationship, among third age adults in the volunteer domain. By means of an online survey, responses were collected from a nation-wide, purposive sample (N = 221) of age 65 or over adults (52% female) who were active volunteers. Multiple regression analyses revealed that upon controlling for gender, marital status, education, and income, calling, t(1) = 9.77, p < .001, and religiosity t(1) = 5.58, p < .001, were the only significant predictors of eudaimonic well-being. Moderated multiple regression analyses revealed that religiosity moderates the relationship of calling and eudaimonic well-being, but only at the aggregate, F(1,217) = 8.46, p = .004, R2 = .026, and highly-religious, F(1,217) = 10.146, p < .05, R2 = .031, levels of religiosity. The findings of this study extend the understanding of the calling construct beyond its previous parameters and provide a model of hope for practitioners engaged with third age adults. Future studies could more closely examine the relationship between calling and eudaimonic well-being in correlation with sources of calling, types of religious influence, or types of volunteer activities among third age adults.

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Young, Janelle Margaret. "A pilot investigation of the volunteer work participation of mental health consumers." Thesis, Curtin University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1259.

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Mental illness is often associated with social isolation, unemployment and limited community participation. Mental health rehabilitation services aim to decrease these psychosocial effects of illness and encourage better community integration for mental health consumers. Volunteer work is one avenue in which consumers can become actively involved with their local communities. However whilst often supported clinically, limited empirical evidence exists which supports the use of volunteer work as a potential mode of rehabilitation for consumers. The overall aim of this study was to document consumer perceptions and experiences with volunteer work and to identify if participation in volunteer work has a positive impact on their mental health. Phase one of this study involved in-depth interviews with nine consumers currently volunteering. Themes identified from these interviews supported the notion that volunteer work is a meaningful occupation for consumers and one which promotes community integration and supports consumer recovery. Findings from the interviews also guided the development of a volunteer scale for later use within the study. Phase two involved the development and pilot testing of a volunteering questionnaire which measured consumer attitudes and experiences with volunteer work. This scale was combined with other standardised tests which measured the mental health variables of personal empowerment and quality of life. Phase three involved the administration of the questionnaire battery developed in phase two. The battery was distributed and completed by thirty consumers, including both those who were and were not volunteering. Analysis conducted identified that overall consumers held a positive view of volunteer work, believing it was a way of developing work skills, friendships and promoting positive mental health.Analysis comparing the volunteering to the non volunteering group indicated that those volunteering experienced better quality of life, specifically within the psychological health, social relationships and personal environment domains. This provides support for the hypothesis that participation in volunteer work promotes consumer recovery. However, age was identified as a potential confounding variable and so the significant results should be viewed with caution. Cost, stigma and becoming unwell during volunteering were identified as barriers to consumer participation. It is argued that mental health services are in a good position to support consumers not only to access but also to maintain ongoing volunteer participation. To date minimal evidence has existed that supported this intervention. This study has begun to fill this research void, however, small study numbers and the cross-sectional, descriptive design make establishing a cause and effect relationship impossible. It would thus be beneficial to conduct a larger study investigating the impact further, including measuring the influence of any interventions that promote consumer participation in volunteer work, such as supported volunteering.

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Young, Janelle Margaret. "A pilot investigation of the volunteer work participation of mental health consumers." Curtin University of Technology, School of Occupational Therapy, 2008. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18537.

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Mental illness is often associated with social isolation, unemployment and limited community participation. Mental health rehabilitation services aim to decrease these psychosocial effects of illness and encourage better community integration for mental health consumers. Volunteer work is one avenue in which consumers can become actively involved with their local communities. However whilst often supported clinically, limited empirical evidence exists which supports the use of volunteer work as a potential mode of rehabilitation for consumers. The overall aim of this study was to document consumer perceptions and experiences with volunteer work and to identify if participation in volunteer work has a positive impact on their mental health. Phase one of this study involved in-depth interviews with nine consumers currently volunteering. Themes identified from these interviews supported the notion that volunteer work is a meaningful occupation for consumers and one which promotes community integration and supports consumer recovery. Findings from the interviews also guided the development of a volunteer scale for later use within the study. Phase two involved the development and pilot testing of a volunteering questionnaire which measured consumer attitudes and experiences with volunteer work. This scale was combined with other standardised tests which measured the mental health variables of personal empowerment and quality of life. Phase three involved the administration of the questionnaire battery developed in phase two. The battery was distributed and completed by thirty consumers, including both those who were and were not volunteering. Analysis conducted identified that overall consumers held a positive view of volunteer work, believing it was a way of developing work skills, friendships and promoting positive mental health.
Analysis comparing the volunteering to the non volunteering group indicated that those volunteering experienced better quality of life, specifically within the psychological health, social relationships and personal environment domains. This provides support for the hypothesis that participation in volunteer work promotes consumer recovery. However, age was identified as a potential confounding variable and so the significant results should be viewed with caution. Cost, stigma and becoming unwell during volunteering were identified as barriers to consumer participation. It is argued that mental health services are in a good position to support consumers not only to access but also to maintain ongoing volunteer participation. To date minimal evidence has existed that supported this intervention. This study has begun to fill this research void, however, small study numbers and the cross-sectional, descriptive design make establishing a cause and effect relationship impossible. It would thus be beneficial to conduct a larger study investigating the impact further, including measuring the influence of any interventions that promote consumer participation in volunteer work, such as supported volunteering.

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Wood, Kelli Greene. "Recruitment of the retired volunteer: a needs assessment for the Dekalb county CASA program." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2005. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/438.

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The purpose of this evaluation was to conduct a needs assessment for the DeKalb County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program, which utilizes volunteers to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children who are in foster care. This assessment assisted the staff in developing a recruitment strategy targeting retired adults. This assessment evaluated the dependability, health and income of retired adults. For the purpose ofthis study dependability was measured by: (a) the number of hours volunteers spent on assigned cases per month, (b) the number of hearings attended and (c) the number of monthly advocacy reports that were completed and sent to volunteer’s advocacy supervisors between September 2004 and November 2004. Six, current, retired adult volunteers participated in the study. A convenience sample of six non-retired volunteers was used to compare dependability findings with those of retired adult volunteers. Income and health were qualitatively analyzed. Descriptive analysis was used describe dependability and volunteer demographics. This evaluation was relevant to DeKalb CASA because, as a program that is dependent upon volunteers to for its success, it is vital that the most advantageous volunteer be recruited and retained. Thus, this evaluation allowed staff to identify the benefit of recruiting this target population in regards to their level of dependabifity compared to non-retired volunteers, as well as, the potential challenges experienced by retired adults in regards to health related illnesses and limited income. Findings from this study concluded that retired adult volunteers are more dependable than non-retired volunteers. In addition, volunteering did contribute to increased feelings of better mental and physical health. Moreover, their limited income did not restrict their ability to volunteer.

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Aquino, Marcos Aurélio Gomes de. "Expectativas, adesão e desligamento no trabalho voluntário: estudos de motivos do voluntariado da fundação cidade viva, João Pessoa/PB 2014." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2015. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7954.

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The volunteer work exercised in non-governmental organizations by citizens who give their time, talents and abilities for the benefit of others, aims to intercede in the social reality and benefit groups, people or organizations. This work differs from formal work in relation to the payment and the time spent on the exercise of this activity, those are the main differences between the voluntary and formal activities. Regarding the above, the study analyzed the motivations that drive current and would-be volunteers to engage in voluntary activity of the Cidade Viva Foundation in the city of João Pessoa - PB. Justified this work in relation to turnover problems related to the non-governmental organizations, therefore, on these problems are associated as the high cost consequences to the recruitment, selection and training of volunteers, miss a continuous service of those who already do part of the organization. The research comprise approximately 350 volunteers of the Cidade Viva Foundation and removed two samples with the survey respondents, one with 250 candidates for the volunteer work and the other with 65 volunteers already active in Cidade Viva Foundation up to a year. The theoretical model used in the research was proposed by Cavalcante (2012) that has as its basis the constructs: altruistic, social justice, affiliation, learning and selfish, which allows to trace the motivational profile of volunteers at different times, both for the expectation, entry and avoidance of volunteers. Data were collected through a questionnaire, during the meetings held at the Foundation from July to August 2014. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics were used (frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and coefficient of variation) and inferential statistics (Student's t test for independent samples and comparisons / multiple correlations through the Bonferroni test - ANOVA). As the most significant achievements, it appears prevalence of altruistic profile, followed by social justice Profile, learning, affiliation, and the selfish profile both in the Expectations model when the input. Similar to this, the selfish profile was the least accepted by survey respondents. Other revenues related to the shutdown of volunteer activity in the Cidade Viva Foundation, indicated that no reason was leading off the volunteers.
O trabalho voluntário, exercido em organizações não-governamentais por cidadãos que doam seu tempo, talentos e habilidades em prol do próximo, tem por objetivo interceder na realidade social e beneficiar, grupos, pessoas ou organizações. Esse trabalho distingue do trabalho formal em relação à remuneração e o tempo dispensado ao exercício dessa atividade, sendo essas as principais diferenças entre as atividades voluntária e formal. Em relação ao exposto, o estudo analisou as motivações que levam os atuais e os pretensos voluntários a se engajarem na atividade voluntária da Fundação Cidade Viva na cidade de João Pessoa – PB. Justifica-se esse trabalho em relação a problemas relacionados à rotatividade nas organizações não-governamentais, pois, relativo a esses problemas estão associados como consequências o custo elevado com o recrutamento, seleção e treinamento dos voluntários, perca de um serviço contínuo daqueles que já fazem parte do corpo da organização. A pesquisa compreende aproximadamente 350 indivíduos voluntários da Fundação Cidade Viva sendo retiradas duas amostras com os respondentes da pesquisa, uma com 250 candidatos ao trabalho voluntário e a outra com 65 já voluntários atuantes da Fundação Cidade Viva até um ano. O modelo teórico utilizado na pesquisa foi o proposto por Cavalcante (2012) que possui em sua base os constructos: altruísta, justiça social, afiliação, aprendizagem e egoísta, o qual permite traçar o perfil motivacional dos voluntários em momentos distintos, tanto para a expectativa, entrada e evasão dos voluntários. Os dados foram obtidos por meio da aplicação de questionário, durante as reuniões ocorridas na Fundação no período de julho a agosto de 2014. Na análise dos dados, foram utilizadas estatísticas descritivas (frequências, porcentagens, médias, desvios-padrão e coeficiente de variação) e estatísticas inferenciais (teste t de Student para amostras independentes e comparações/correlações múltiplas por meio dos testes de Bonferroni - ANOVA). Quanto aos resultados mais significativos alcançados, verifica-se predominância do perfil altruístas, seguido do perfil justiça social, aprendizagem, afiliação, e o perfil egoísta tanto no modelo de Expectativas quando no de Entrada. Semelhante a isso, o perfil egoísta foi o menos aceito pelos respondentes da pesquisa. Outros resultados, relativos ao desligamento da atividade voluntária na Fundação Cidade Viva, indicaram que nenhuma das razões foi preponderante à saída dos voluntários.

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Goulding, Myrne. "Motivation, volunteers, and youth ministry a Christian perspective on need-oriented motivation, as it applies to a volunteer-based youth ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Keele, Billy Mac. "A leadership development model for volunteer church workers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Slight, Audrey. "Governing the subject of voluntary work : a study of two generations of volunteer workers." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323062.

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Lee, Chung Tim-ying Betty. "An exploration of the use of volunteers in family services agencies /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325843.

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Soares, Luisa de Azevedo Senra. "A oferta de trabalho voluntário no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-22012015-160514/.

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Este artigo visa investigar os determinantes econométricos da oferta de trabalho voluntário no Brasil. Nas últimas décadas, foram realizados estudos empíricos buscando explicitar os fatores que levam os indivíduos a trabalhar voluntariamente em alguns países, mas nenhuma averiguação desse caráter foi feita entre os brasileiros ainda. De fato, pouco se sabe a respeito dos trabalhadores voluntários no Brasil. Utilizando dados da PNAD/IBGE, esta pesquisa mostra que eles eram cerca de 208 mil em 2012, o equivalente a 0,17% da população de 15 a 64 anos de idade no país, e trabalhavam em média 21 horas por semana. Os resultados do pooled Probit e Tobit indicam que pessoas com menores rendimentos potenciais do trabalho (custo de oportunidade) têm maior probabilidade de serem voluntárias e dedicam mais tempo ao voluntariado. A oferta de trabalho voluntário também aumenta com a renda domiciliar dos demais moradores e a escolaridade, e sua relação com a idade tem formato de U. Entre os homens, a renda não proveniente do trabalho é outro fator que exerce uma influência positiva sobre a decisão de despender algumas horas por semana em atividades voluntárias. Já entre as mulheres, a disponibilidade para trabalhar voluntariamente diminui com a presença de crianças no domicílio. De maneira geral, a magnitude dos efeitos obtidos através do modelo Probit é mais relevante.
This paper aims to investigate the econometric determinants of volunteer labor supply in Brazil. In recent decades, empirical studies trying to identify the factors that lead individuals to volunteer have been conducted in some countries, but no investigation of such character has been made in Brazil so far. Indeed, little is known about the nation\'s volunteer workers. Using data from PNAD/IBGE, this research shows that they were about 208 thousand in 2012, or 0.17% of the Brazilian population aged 15-64 years, and worked on average 21 hours a week. The pooled Probit and Tobit results indicate that people with lower potential wages (opportunity cost) are more likely to volunteer and devote more time to voluntary activities. Volunteer labor supply also increases with the income of other household members and higher levels of education. Furthermore, there is a U-shaped relation between volunteering and age. Among men, income from other sources than wages is another factor that has a positive influence on the decision to spend some hours a week volunteering. Among women, having a child at home diminishes the willingness to volunteer. In general, the magnitude of the effects of the Probit model is more relevant.

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SÖDERHIELM, REBECKA. "Volunteering, Gender and Power : Making conditions visible and understanding male dominance in a volunteer context with a gender perspective." Thesis, KTH, Organisation och ledning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154839.

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The background for this thesis is found in the patterns of gender inequality in civil society organizations. Existing research provide little comprehensive knowledge of the conditions for women and men in civil society organizations. To help fill this gap in knowledge the purpose of this thesis is to explore the conditions for women and men as volunteers in a male dominated civil society organization with a gender perspective and make any eventual inequalities visible. The thesis explores the conditions women and men face in their volunteering, what gender differences can be found and how the male dominance can be understood. The study is based on data from a self-administrated survey conducted among volunteers in a Swedish male dominated civil society organization. Questions concerned their volunteer work and their experience of the situation as female and male volunteers in the organization. Empirical patterns were identified and gender theories were used as a basis for the interpretation of the results. The findings from this case illustrate that women and men do not face equal conditions in their volunteer work. Most volunteers were happy with their work as volunteers. However, male volunteers typically held positions of more power, influence and higher status than women. Female volunteers were in a token position and in many ways had to prove themselves as well as adapt to conditions formed to suit men, by men, as representatives of the norm. The male dominance could be related to perceptions of the ideal volunteer; a competent man loyal to the organization and without inconvenient responsibilities elsewhere. Another aspect which could be related to the male dominance was patterns of social interactions that favour male volunteers, in this case homosocial relations, which are created in the interaction between the ambiguities of unstructured processes and gendered expectations.

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Lo, Claudia (Claudia Wai Yu). "When all you have is a banhammer : the social and communicative work of Volunteer moderators." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117903.

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Thesis: S.M. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2018.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
The popular understanding of moderation online is that moderation is inherently reactive, where moderators see and then react to content generated by users, typically by removing it; in order to understand the work already being performed by moderators, we need to expand our understanding of what that work entails. Drawing upon interviews, participant observation, and my own experiences as a volunteer community moderator on Reddit, I propose that a significant portion of work performed by volunteer moderators is social and communicative in nature. Even the chosen case studies of large-scale esports events on Twitch, where the most visible and intense tasks given to volunteer moderators consists of reacting and removing user-generated chat messages, exposes faults in the reactive model of moderation. A better appreciation of the full scope of moderation work will be vital in guiding future research, design, and development efforts in this field.
by Claudia Lo.
S.M. in Comparative Media Studies

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Price, Donald James. "A study of lay volunteer youth workers in Chicago metropolitan area churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Wiberg, Helena. "Frivilligt arbete = frivillig könsfördelning?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-72226.

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This paper attempts to illustrate a gap when it comes to the knowledge about unpaid volunteers in Swedish organisations. The person-oriented explanations of individual preferences when choosing an orientation in which to volunteer does not suffice to explain and enlighten the fact that there is a gender-based division that orientates women towards voluntary work within organisations with a social direction, while men tend to choose sports-oriented voluntary tasks. This illustrates a pattern that is common in society in general. Eight interviews including four women volunteering in socially oriented organisations and four men in sports-oriented organisations have been conducted. An attempt has been made to explain results from earlier research as well as the respondents reasoning about their voluntary work with gender related theories. The aim has been to situate individual choices of preference to a larger context that illustrates those as not completely individual but also as formations that makes a symphony with the general ideas about feminine and masculine qualities.

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Massongill, Stefani June. "Motivation to volunteer within a long-term care ombudsman program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2005.

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Baxter, Nathan. "A case study of the volunteer culture of Liberty Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Damon, Michelle Lynette. "Management of volunteers at the Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/357.

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Ryczer-Dumas, Malgorzata. "Users’ agencies : juxtaposing public portrayals and users’ accounts of app-mediated cardiac arrest volunteer work in Sweden." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022EHES0024.

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Cette thèse adopte une perspective de recherche en sciences sociales pour examiner les usages de l'application SMSlivräddare (eng. SMSlifesaving), devenue Heartrunner, ayant pour objectif de solliciter des bénévoles à proximité de personnes presumées victimes d'un arrêt cardiaque extra-hospitalier. Cette étude de cas sur les usages de cette application médicale et de santé juxtapose les « portraits » publics de l'application, de ses utilisateurs potentiels, de leurs rôles actifs et de leurs pratiques d'usage et les témoignages des utilisateurs bénévoles. Cette analyse explore les dimensions des rôles actifs de l'application et de ses utilisateurs tels qu’ils sont délégués par les « portraits » de la technologie et tels qu’ils sont perçus par ses utilisateurs. Cette analyse rend visibles les aspects des rôles actifs et des pratiques des utilisateurs bénévoles au moment de la mise en œuvre de cette technologie dans deux premières régions, avant son adoption ultérieure dans d'autres régions de Suède ainsi qu’au Danemark. La perspective de la recherche médicale a jusqu'à présent dominé les études sur les applications de secourisme. Ces études ont évalué les résultats de l'usage de l'application par les bénévoles et se sont concentrées sur l'examen de l'efficacité de ces applications, par des indicateurs tels que le nombre d'utilisateurs arrivés sur place et le nombre de ceux qui ont participé à la réanimation des personnes victimes. Dans le même temps, ces travaux ont contribué à la construction de discours prometteurs et à des approches instrumentales appliquées pour comprendre les significations et les usages des applications médicales et de santé. En revanche, en s'appuyant sur l'analyse discursive et thématique du matériel de recherche qualitative, cette thèse cherche à mettre en évidence les perspectives des utilisateurs dans leur co-construction de la technologie de secourisme à travers leurs pratiques d'usage de l'application. Par une approche théorique socio-matérielle, elle explore de manière critique les rôles actifs des utilisateurs tels qu'ils sont délégués par les discours des développeurs du projet, des gestionnaires et des évaluateurs de cette technologie médicale et tels qu'ils sont négociés par les utilisateurs dans leurs pratiques quotidiennes. Cette thèse examine tout d'abord les « portraits » de l'application publiés en ligne, de ses utilisateurs et de leurs rôles actifs, mais aussi dans les pratiques de recrutement des utilisateurs et enfin dans une publication de recherche médicale évaluant cette technologie de secourisme. Ensuite, la thèse examine comment les bénévoles décrivent les motifs de leur décision de devenir usagers de l’application, le contexte social de leurs décisions et les significations qu'ils attribuent à leurs pratiques. Troisièmement, la thèse examine comment les récits des bénévoles, en juxtaposition avec les « portraits » en ligne de la technologie SMSlifesaving, représentent les pratiques d'usage de l'application par les bénévoles aux differentes étapes: avant la réception des notifications les informant des cas d'arrêts cardiaques, au moment de la réception de ces notifications, et après leur acceptation.Contribuant au champ de la recherche sociale critique sur les applications médicales et de santé, la thèse met en relief que les utilisateurs de l'application SMSlifesaving et les technologies qu'ils co-construisent ont des rôles actifs. Elle illustre les rôles actifs délégués et négociés par les utilisateurs ; ces derniers lorsqu'ils surmontent les dépendances quotidiennes de l'application et mesurent l'importance de leur travail bénévole, par l’intermédiaire de leur usage de l’application, par rapport à leur travail rémunéré et à leurs engagements de vie privée, développent un engagement consciencieux envers l'application et redéfinissent les promesses médicales de l'application pour les personnes victimes et leurs familles
This thesis embraces a social science research perspective to examine uses of the app SMSlivräddare (eng. SMSlifesaving), now Heartrunner, dedicated to alert volunteers nearby to assist people suspected to suffer from a cardiac arrest outside hospital. This case study of the uses of the health and medical app juxtaposes the public portrayals of the app, its prospective users, their agencies and use practices with the volunteer users’ own accounts. The analysis explores dimensions of the app’s and its users’ agencies as delegated by the technology’s portrayals and perceived by its users. It renders visible also possibly obscured aspects of the volunteer users’ agencies and practices at the time of the technology’s implementation in the two first regions, before its subsequent adoption in other Swedish regions and in Denmark. A medical research perspective has so far dominated the studies of lifesaving apps. Such research evaluates the patients’ health outcomes resulting from the app use by the volunteers and concentrates on the examination of the efficiency aspects of the app, such as how many users arrived and how many engaged in resuscitating the patients. At the same time, it contributes to the promissory discourses and instrumental approaches applied to understand the meanings and uses of health and medical apps. In contrast, building on the discourse and thematic analysis of the qualitative research material, this thesis seeks to highlight the users’ perspectives in their co-constructing of the SMSlifesaving technology through their app use practices; it embraces a socio-material theoretical approach and critically explores the users’ agencies as delegated by the discourses of the project developers, managers and evaluators of the medical technology and as negotiated by the users in their daily practices. This thesis, first, investigates the public portrayals of the app, its users and their agencies published online, in the user-recruiting practices, and in a medical research publication evaluating the SMSlifesaving technology. Next, it examines how the volunteers’ accounts describe the rationales of their entry into their SMSlifesaving app use practices, the social context embedding their entry and the meanings which they ascribe to their practices. Third, the study investigates how the volunteers’ accounts in juxtaposition to the online portrayals of the SMSlifesaving technology represent the volunteers’ app use before their receptions of the app’s notifications which inform them about cardiac-arrest cases nearby, at the time of reception of such notifications, and following acceptance of such notifications.Contributing to the field of critical social research on health and medical apps, the thesis identifies that both the SMSlifesaving app users and the technologies they co-construct have agencies. It illustrates the users’ agencies delegated and negotiated; the latter when they overcome the app everyday dependencies and judge the app-mediated volunteer work importance versus their paid work and private life commitments, develop dutiful engagement with the app and re-define the app’s medical promises for the patients and their families

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Yeu, Ming. "The psychological impact of long-term unemployment in mature-aged men : Volunteer work as a moderating variable." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1266.

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Previous research has recognised the negative psychological distress associated with unemployment for older workers aged over 40 years, as they are considered to be more at risk of being unemployed for a longer duration than other age groups. Several moderating variables of the negative effects of unemployment such as age, length of unemployment and leisure participation have also been identified. In examining the experiences of unemployment with an Australian mature-aged group of men, this study also investigated the potential moderating effect of volunteer work participation that had been noted previously but had never been explored. One-hundred and eighteen men aged between 38 and 60 years old (M. = 48.85 years) anonymously completed a booklet containing several measures of depression, anxiety, stress, alcohol consumption and abuse, and stress-related growth (ability to thrive as a result of negative life events). Compared to employed men, unemployed men were found to have significantly higher levels of depression, and thriving, but not increased anxiety, stress, or risk of alcohol abuse. Performing volunteer work was found to be related to lower levels of depression and stress in both employed and unemployed men. Results were explained in consideration of Jahoda's (1981, 1982) deprivation theory, Fryer and Payne's (1984) agency theory and Warr's (1987, 1994) vitamin model. Limitations of the study and recommendations for further research are also discussed.

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Alms, Maurice H. "Jesus is the key to freedom "so if the Son (Jesus Christ) sets you free, you are free indeed" John 8:36 : (a manual for training clergy and lay volunteers for ministry in correctional settings) /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Harris, Doug. "A study guide for developing volunteer pastors and deacons in and through the local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Tucker, Ingrid Laura. "Getting Volunteer Teachers and Urban Parents to Work Together: a Study of an Effort to Establish a Partnership." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/711.

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Thesis advisor: Robert J. Starratt
Parent involvement is critical to student success. Many schools across the nation are making a concerted effort to establish relationships between teachers and parents. There are a myriad of barriers that prevent those relationships from occurring. The challenge is even greater in urban schools. This qualitative case study examines the impact of volunteer teacher perceptions and attitudes on establishing relationships with urban parents at an all girls' middle school in the inner city. The study specifically investigated the beliefs of volunteer teachers before and after their participation in the study. The study will also examine whether teachers considered parents as an in integral part in supporting their children's learning as a result of their participation in the study. Five volunteer teachers, a master teacher and the parent coordinator participated in the study over the course of a year and a half. The data from this study showed that despite cultural and socio-economic differences, volunteer teacher can work with urban parents. The findings indicate volunteer teachers do value parental involvement. Teachers believe with continued professional development, they can establish authentic relationships with parents. Teachers in the study reported that parents want the best for their children. Teachers indicated that their relationships with parents are critical to student success. The findings of this study will provide implications for educational practice, policy, future research and researchers' leadership. Limitations to the study include a small sample size, the duration of the study and the role of researcher as Head of School
Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Administration

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Deaton, Elizabeth Ann. "Gender under Construction: Volunteerism in a Women's Group in Rural Appalachia." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212433834.

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Kepler, Leslie G. "Volunteer Mentor Training and Support| Three Perspectives Regarding the Knowledge and Abilities Needed for Effective Mentoring." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3574631.

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A key factor in mentoring effectiveness and satisfaction is ensuring that mentor preparation training and ongoing support address needed mentor knowledge and abilities (MKAs). Knowing how to mentor is different from knowing what mentoring involves or knowing mentoring policies and procedures. Ideally, mentor training incorporates both the "how" and the "what" of mentoring. Besides program administrators' ideas about needed MKAs, mentors and mentees are key stakeholders in mentor training effectiveness, yet their perspectives are not prevalent in the literature. This qualitative study examined three perspectives about MKAs related to mentor preparation training and ongoing support for a women's resource center (WRC) in a large metropolitan area in the Southwest. The WRC experienced a gap between mentor training effectiveness and mentor satisfaction with mentoring outcomes due to insufficient mentor development in MKAs most applicable to program goals. The three perspectives informing this study were mentors, mentees and mentoring program staff members. This study explored MKAs identified be each stakeholder group as necessary to mentoring effectiveness. MKAs categories identified by the stakeholders were: Mentor Self-Awareness, Mentor Self-Management, Realistic Expectations, Understand Mentees, Mentorship Management, Interpersonal Communication, Goals, WRC and Mentoring Program. Three implications for preparing mentors were identified. First, mentors need to possess realistic expectations regarding the WRC mentoring program. Second, training offered to mentors needs to distinguish between topics relevant to all mentors compared to topics relevant to some mentors depending on their previous mentoring or professional background and experience. Third, training and support should distinguish between information needed versus skills needed for effective mentoring. Ongoing mentor training and support implications include providing regularly scheduled mentorship assessments and updates to the WRC, establishing opportunities for mentors to connect with each other and the WRC, and receiving guidance for recognizing when it is time to close a mentorship and how to close it. Ongoing training and support implications indicate the need for online access to the information and resources provided during mentoring preparation; updates from the Mentoring Program Coordinator (MPC) about WRC programs, resources, and services; plus additional training and resources on mentoring effectiveness relevant while a mentorship is in progress.

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Hickman, Jennifer. "You can't always get what you want: NGO needs versus preparation for overseas volunteer abroad work in India /." Click here to view full text, 2007.

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Zetterberg, Karin. "För andra eller sig själv? : Altruism hos volontärer utomlands och på hemmaplan." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-1537.

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Forskning har visat att människor hjälper varandra av såväl egoistiska som altruistiska skäl. Hur ter det sig hos volontärer? Ställer volontärer upp för de hjälpbehövandes eller för sin egen skull? Den här uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka volontärers motiv till att hjälpa. Skiljer motiven sig åt beroende på om engagemanget sker i Sverige, inom Europa eller i en annan världsdel? 40 volontärer berättade skriftligt om sina volontärupplevelser. Berättelserna analyserades för att se vilken typ av motiv som angavs mest. Resultatet visade att fler egoistiska än altruistiska motiv angavs totalt sett bland volontärerna, däremot angav Europavolontärer flest altruistiska motiv. Överlag engagerade sig yngre volontärer längre hemifrån. Resultaten kan ge framförallt frivilligorganisationer men också samhället i stort insikt i motiv bakom hjälpinsatser.

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Fredriksen, Tina. "Varför volontärresor? : En undersökande studie om motiveringen kring volontärresande." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25549.

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The focus of this study is to dig deeper into what motivates volunteer travelers. The commercial side of volunteer travelling has increased in the past years, and young Swedes pay large amounts of money to travel to other countries and work as volunteers. The purpose of this study is to get a glimpse into what motivates these young people, and how this correlates to the rapid increase of commercial travelling bureaus that focus on volunteer travelling. Five people under the age of 30, who had been volunteering through a commercial travelling agency, where interviewed for this study. The results show that the main motivation for paying to go work abroad is actually the experience, meeting new people and seeing new things. The motivational factor of helping people turned out to be secondary.

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Salazar, Clarissa Rocha da Silva. "Gestão do voluntariado e dádiva: reflexões à luz do caso obras sociais Irmã Dulce – OSID." Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2004. http://www.adm.ufba.br/publicacao/gesto-voluntariado-ddiva-reflexes-aluz-caso-obras-sociais-irmadulce-osid.

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Este trabalho discute a gestão do voluntariado em organizações do terceiro Setor, utilizandose como unidade de análise as Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce - OSID. Uma instituição de grande porte, profissionalizada, que ao longo dos anos tornou-se respeitada e conhecida pelos feitos de sua fundadora e pelos serviços gratuitamente prestados à população carente nas áreas de saúde, assistência social e educação. A partir da construção de um estudo de caso e da Observação Participante, como principal instrumento de pesquisa, buscou-se entender como se deu a evolução do trabalho voluntário na OSID e de que forma se estabelece a atual interface entre as políticas e práticas de gestão do voluntariado e a própria dinâmica deste trabalho na organização. Desta maneira, foi possível discutir a problemática do voluntariado e refletir sobre outros aspectos importantes que permeiam o atual debate sobre a profissionalização do trabalho voluntário e o seu papel nas organizações do terceiro setor. Para responder ao referido intuito deste trabalho, amparou-se na perspectiva da Dádiva, em seu sentido antropológico e sociológico, onde foi possível discutir, sob um olhar mais crítico e ampliado, o fenômeno do trabalho voluntário e sua gestão. Considera-se, em particular, o debate teórico sobre a Dádiva Maussiana, desenvolvido por um conjunto de intelectuais integrantes da Revista do MAUSS (Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales - Movimento Anti-Utilitarista nas Ciências Sociais).Verificou-se que este trabalho voluntário foi inicialmente marcado pelo apoio de profissionais da área de saúde como médicos e enfermeiras que realizavam um trabalho em parceria com a freira Irmã Dulce, no atendimento aos doentes que ela recolhia. No período em que as Obras foram dirigidas pela freira, profissionais remunerados e voluntários conviviam e se misturavam nas atribuições. Com o comprometimento da saúde de Irmã Dulce e a impossibilidade em continuar a administração das Obras, inicia-se em 1989 o processo de profissionalização. Neste período, há um enfraquecimento do trabalho voluntário e a proibição da atuação profissional de pessoas da área de saúde como voluntárias. Somente poucos voluntários persistem num trabalho silencioso e individualizado nas Obras, permanecendo assim por quase uma década. Somente no ano de 2001 este trabalho é retomado com uma nova gestão, comprometida em resgatar o voluntariado com a proposta de preservar a memória da fundadora, divulgando sua missão, e como uma maneira de humanizar os serviços prestados pela organização. Apesar da profissionalização das Obras, este trabalho voluntário não se sustenta por uma gestão profissionalizada, muito menos por um trabalho profissionalizado que atenda a exigências de qualificação e desempenho. Este voluntariado, que também sofre mudanças em seu perfil, atua principalmente em atividades de cunho social. Evidenciou-se na dinâmica deste trabalho a presença de elementos simbólicos e a importância da busca e dos esforços pela manutenção dos vínculos que estes voluntários estabeleciam com os demais atores. O seu atual gerenciamento, por sua vez, vem sendo construído através de relações de pessoalidade e apresentando lacunas significativas em sua interface com o voluntariado.
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Chartrand, Sébastien. "Work in voluntary welfare organizations : A sociological study of voluntary welfare organizations in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-165.

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Since Sweden has one of the most comprehensive welfare states, the role of voluntary organizations active in the field of welfare is often neglected. The unique Swedish nonprofit sector is characterized by 1) the tradition of popular mass movements in which members are central and the real owners of the organization, 2) large membership and volunteering, but low employment levels, 3) dominance in the fields of culture and recreation, but the relative marginalization in welfare. This Ph.D. dissertation empirically studies work and the perception of work in voluntary welfare organizations (VWOs) in Sweden. I completed a series of 38 interviews of employees and volunteers in four VWOs: 1) a children’s rights organization; 2) a women’s center; 3) a volunteer bureau; and 4) a humanitarian organization. A quantitative survey of some 200 VWOs supplements the qualitative data. Looking at the internal work setting and interactions between workers one realizes that work in VWOs is influenced not only by the popular mass movements (folkrörelser), which are the foundation model of all Swedish voluntary organizations, but also by paradigms emerging out of the public and for-profit sectors: 1) the public paradigm permanently shapes voluntary welfare organizations through the action of paid workers who often have public sector work experience; and 2) work in voluntary organizations is partly integrated into the regular labor market, and interfaces emerge between volunteering and professional life (for-profit paradigm). The private sphere also interferes with volunteering. Finally, this sheds a new light on the claims of VWOs that they are autonomous, “free” entities, and their contribution to social integration and strengthening of social ties.

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Thomas, Victor R. "Bridging the gap between church volunteers and inmates." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Renfro, Johnny Elbert. "Pastoral care in the clinical setting a training initiative for volunteer chaplains in a community hospital /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Lemos, Samuel Lázaro Luz. "Motivação para expectativa, entrada, permanência e saída: um estudo longitudinal no voluntariado da fundação Cidade viva." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8609.

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This work comprises a longitudinal study that sought to analyze volunteers through the prism of the motivational factors of expectation, entrance, stay and exit from the Fundação Cidade Viva in the City of João Pessoa / PB. As the final product, we expected to provide information relevant to this institution on its praxis. Thus, it was used as the basis of theory of Structural Model of Motivation at Work Volunteer by Cavalcante (2012). It was then carried out an exploratory case study that designed quantitative questionnaires which were tabulated and evaluated by descriptive statistics and other tests such as the T test for independent samples and ANOVA (one way). As a result, it was detailed as the profile of the volunteers of the institution the prevalence of adult and married women in their 35 years, with monthly income above R$ 5,000.00. The pointed minimum education level was unfinished higher education. Usually a family member and / or friend have already performed volunteer work or currently does. Commonly they have participated in this type of work at another institution, but not at present time. It confirmed the hypothesis that voluntary motivations change with the passage of time, and analyzes suggests the possibility of conflict between the expectations of volunteers and the performance of this activity, because the indexes obtained as motivation compared in the four moments indicate that they fall moderately in the first year of operation to grow again since then. Furthermore, religion has emerged as the main tool to attract and maintain the workforce of the institution at issue which does not exclude the importance of other elements such as civic bias, learning objectives or identification with the organization, but suggests that the organization studied should pay attention to the religious element as its mainstay in their internal human resources policies.
O presente trabalho compõe um estudo longitudinal que buscou analisar voluntários sob o prisma dos fatores motivacionais de expectativa, entrada, permanência e saída na Fundação Cidade Viva da cidade de João Pessoa/PB. Como produto final, esperou-se o fornecimento de informações relevantes para a citada instituição sobre sua práxis. Para tanto, foi utilizada como teoria de base do Modelo Estrutural de Motivação no Trabalho Voluntário de Cavalcante (2012). Foi realizado então um estudo de caso exploratório em que se empregaram questionários quantitativos que foram tabulados e avaliados por estatística descritiva e outros testes, como o Teste T para amostras independentes e ANOVA (one way). Como resultados, foi descoberto como perfil dos voluntários da instituição a predominância de mulheres adultas e casadas na faixa dos 35 anos, com renda mensal acima dos R$ 5.000,00. A escolaridade mínima apontada foi ensino superior incompleto. Normalmente algum familiar e/ou amigo já realizou trabalho voluntário ou atualmente o faz. Comumente elas já participaram desta natureza de trabalho em outra instituição, mas não o exerce mais hodiernamente. Confirmouse a hipótese de que as motivações voluntárias se alteram com o passar do tempo, e as análises sugerem a possibilidade de haver conflito entre as expectativas dos voluntários e o exercício desta atividade, pois os índices obtidos quanto a motivação em comparação nos quatro momentos indicam que elas caem moderadamente no primeiro ano de atuação para crescerem novamente a partir de então. Além disso, a religião destacou-se como principal instrumento para atração e manutenção do corpo funcional da instituição pesquisada, o que não exclui a importância de outros elementos, como o viés cívico, objetivos de aprendizagem ou identificação com a entidade. Todavia, sugere que a organização estudada deve atentar ao elemento religioso como seu principal sustentáculo em suas políticas internas de recursos humanos.

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Hunter, Ashley J. "The Ripple Effect." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/1.

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In 2006, Steven Oakley, an eighteen-year-old high school senior from Pennsylvania, is bribed by his father to go on a volunteer trip to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, Louisiana. During his time, he meets a broken family whose experiences change Steven’s perspective on his own privileged life.

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Niwa, Luciana Mitsue Sakano. "O senescente nipônico e o voluntariado." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/7/7141/tde-24092018-162135/.

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Introdução: O envelhecimento populacional é um fato inexorável tanto em países desenvolvidos como em países em desenvolvimento. Além do controle das doenças crônicas, manutenção da autonomia e independência, é preciso manter o idoso ativo e inserido na sociedade. Para muitos, a velhice tem seu marco inicial na aposentadoria pois é o momento em que há uma reflexão sobre o que fazer, qual o seu espaço na família e na sociedade. O trabalho voluntário tem permitido que os idosos se sintam úteis, permaneçam ativos e inseridos na sociedade. Objetivo: conhecer os motivos que levaram um grupo de senescentes de origem japonesa, evangélicos a serem voluntários em um projeto para idosos com limitações. Metodologia: estudo prospectivo, descritivo, sob os pressupostos da pesquisa quantitativa e qualitativa realizado com voluntários idosos de ambos os sexos, do Projeto Lírios do Campo, desenvolvido em uma igreja cristã japonesa da cidade de São Paulo. Resultados: a entrevista com dezesseis voluntários mostrou o predomínio (75%) do sexo feminino e a média de idade foi de 70 anos. A maioria (81,25%) dos voluntários tinham ensino superior completo, eram aposentados e relatavam presença de doença. A percepção do que é o idoso foi pessimista e marcada pela dependência para 56% dos voluntários, entretanto, os mesmos tinham uma visão positiva do próprio envelhecimento, já 44% mostrou uma visão realista do envelhecimento sendo que a expectativa do próprio envelhecimento é a mesma em relação ao que é o idoso. Através da análise de conteúdo dos discursos, segundo Bardin e o uso do software Alceste, foi possível apreender que os motivos levaram os senescentes a se tornarem voluntários, classificados em três categorias: 1. Deus (pelo chamado divino e disseminação do Evangelho), 2. Projeto (sentimento de pertencimento e de utilidade) e, 3. Valores (relacionados a vivencias familiares e gratidão, principalmente relacionado a mãe). Conclusão: para os senescentes do Projeto Lírios do Campo, os motivos que os tornaram voluntários estão ligados a um sentido de vida, que por serem cristãos, esse significado é servir a Deus, com atitudes que o demonstrem, através dos cuidados aos idosos portadores de limitações. Pertencer ao projeto é o modo de servir a Deus, seja pela afinidade com idosos, com a cultura japonesa ou por se tornarem referência e sentirem-se úteis. Os valores relacionados a vivencia de cuidar da mãe ou de algum familiar idoso, além de inspiração, também, foi uma forma de compartilhar suas experiencias e de retribuição. Conhecer os motivos que levaram os senescentes a se tornarem voluntários, numa instituição evangélica, mostrou que a influência da cultura nipônica se justapôs a evangélica quando buscam o sentimento de utilidade e servilismo ao ajudar o próximo, principalmente o idoso. Esses achados contribuíram não só para entender a dinâmica deste projeto, mas como enfermeiros, orientar novas iniciativas de trabalhos onde os idosos tenham papel fundamental, contribuindo com a sociedade e ao mesmo tempo, tornando-os úteis, produtivos e felizes.
Introduction: Population aging is an inexorable fact in both developed and developing countries. Besides controlling chronic diseases, maintaining autonomy and independence, it is necessary to keep the elderly active and inserted in society. For many, old age has its starting point in retirement because it is the moment in which there is a reflection on what to do, what its space in the family and in society. Voluntary work has allowed the elderly to feel useful, to remain active and inserted in society. Objective: The present study aims to know the reasons that led a group of senescent to be volunteers in a project for the elderly with limitations. Method: This is a prospective, descriptive study under the assumptions of the quantitative and qualitative research carried out with sixteen elderly volunteers of both sexes, of the Lilies of the Field Project, inserted in a Japanese Christian church in the city of São Paulo. Results: There was a predominance (75%) of females and mean age was 70 years. The majority (81.25%) of the volunteers had completed higher education, were retired and reported the presence of disease. The perception of the elderly was pessimistic and marked by dependence on 56% of the volunteers, however, they had a positive view of aging itself. For 44%, a realistic view of aging is pointed out, and the expectation of aging itself is the same as that of the elderly. The reasons that led the senescent to become volunteers were related in three categories: 1. God, by calling and spreading the Gospel, 2. Project linked to the issues of belonging and feeling useful, finally, 3. Values related to experiences relatives taking care of the mother or taking the example of the grandmother as inspiration. Conclusion: for the senescent of the Lilies of the Field Project, the motives that made them voluntary are linked to a sense of life, which because they are Christians, this meaning is to serve God, with attitudes that demonstrate it, through the care of the elderly with limitations. Belonging to the project is the way of serving God, whether by affinity with the elderly, with Japanese culture or by becoming a reference and feeling useful. The values related to the experience of caring for the mother or some elderly relative, as well as inspiration, were also a way of sharing their experiences and retribution. Knowing the reasons that led the senescent to become volunteers in an evangelical institution showed that the influence of Japanese culture juxtaposed with the evangelical when they seek the sense of usefulness and servility in helping others, especially the elderly. These findings contributed not only to understanding the dynamics of this project, but as nurses, to guide new work initiatives where older people play a fundamental role, contributing to society while making them useful, productive and happy.

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Leung, Yui-kee. "Perceived organizational climate and job satisfaction : a comparison between social work personnel in voluntary agencies in community development and family welfare services /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12341629.

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Roy, Lynne Denise. "Identification of the spiritual nursing care practices of volunteer parish nurses." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2372.

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Parish nursing, a specialty nursing practice which includes the spiritual component of integration of faith and health, has been growing rapidly over the last decade. Standards of Parish Nursing Practice developed in 1998 are consistent with the nursing process and include the spiritual dimension.

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YANG, YU-PING, and 楊玉萍. "The Influence of Volunteer Work on Senior Volunteers." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3wm8w2.

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碩士
明新科技大學
服務事業管理研究所碩士班
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The senior volunteers’ contribution has been recognized lately. This study explored the impact of volunteering careers on senior volunteers. This research uses in-depth interviews of qualitative research. The researcher interviewed nine senior volunteers who currently volunteer in one of the non-profit organization in Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan. According to the results of this research, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) The motivations for participation of senior volunteers are quite similar. In general they participated in volunteer services because of the friends’ invitations. In addition, helping people, spending their time for a better day and getting to know more people, etc. are also the reasons for them to join volunteer services. (2) The main reasons for senior volunteers to continue participating in volunteer service is the partnership. In addition, traveling distance from home and recognition of the organization were two significant factors. Many praises and affirmations were also important. (3) The influence of volunteering careers on senior volunteers included changing their attitudes for the later life, not expecting the offspring to fulfill the obligation to the parent, to take care of their own health, to enrich themselves, and to be happy every day. According to the results of the study, relevant recommendations are made to serve as a reference for relevant units to encourage and attract elderly people to continue to invest in voluntary services.

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Cheng, Ying-Ying, and 鄭瑩瑩. "The Development of Work-Volunteer Conflict Scale." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05808723146953134003.

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銘傳大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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The purpose of this study is to develop the scale which can be applied to investigating the conflict phenomenon between volunteer’s work and his/her volunteering activities. Due to the limited resources used in the individual life, people have to play different roles in the work and nonwork domains. Such the phenomenon constructs the conflicts and competition between work and volunteering life. Nevertheless, the relevant literature pays little attention to the work-volunteer conflict issue. Through literature reviews, the study investigates the relationship between work and volunteers. Meanwhile, by definitions and conceptualization of the inerrole conflict, the study d evelops three major forms of work-volunteer conflicts including time-based, strain-based and behavior-based conflicts respectively. Through the application of the DeVellis’s procedure developed in 1991, the study constructs the work-volunteer conflict measurement scale. The result of the study suggests that the scale provides the measurement tool with reliability and validity.

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Hsiao, Tzu-Han, and 蕭茲涵. "An Exploratary Study of Volunteer Manager's Work and Interaction Experience with Incompetent Volunteer." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37479083644841043105.

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國立臺灣師範大學
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This study is from the perspective of volunteer managers’s experience who is working in medical centers, regional hospitals and district hospitals, three levels of hospitals in Taipei. Because there was few studies talk about the experience of incompetent volunteer, coupled with statistical data validation, the number of hospitals is the use of volunteer with the largest number of the most stable unit, so choose the medical field as a research field. This study is a qualitative research, use the depth interviews of nine volunteer managers interviewed for the study to explore the management and use of hospital volunteers, volunteer managers work content, to get along with the experience of volunteers and the managers. And use the story to presented manager’s experience and process of incompetent volunteer. The results showed： 1. Every hospital has its own volunteer management practices, but not strictly enforced. Only one hospital rigorous for assessment, and volunteers can acceptable and coordinate with it. 2. The hospital can not providing volunteer management courses and training, although relevant departments offered the course but are not very inline with demand. 3. All the volunteer manager give volunteers great appraisement, they think volunteers can help for administration general service、provide support and direct service、reduce the cost of personnel in hospital, also can enhance the image of hospitals. But high operating costs of volunteer team、service is not very good、and harm the image of hospitals could be negative effects. 4. Volunteer manager’s work content are partial in administration work, less develop support and mediation functions. 5. Most volunteer manager want to maintain partnership with volunteers, but some volunteer manager think that business is business and wants to maintain boundaries. 6. Volunteer manager’s dilemma of work including：The use of volunteer unit has too much expect to volunteers、supervisor cat not provide enough support and guidance、lack of power to execute the management practices、and senior volunteers resistant to change. 7. Volunteer manager are almost have the experience in incompetent volunteer，when they run into the situation, they mainly to persuade. Unless the situation is clear violation、not a chance event、affect the rights and security of people, volunteer manager wont asked volunteer to leave. Finally according to the findings, researcher give some advice for the hospital manager and the volunteer manager.

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Alves, Filipe Pereira Martins. "Motives to volunteer, personal and work-values: A study with specialized and non-specialized volunteers." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/34579.

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Huang, Li-Teng, and 黃立騰. "A Study of Volunteer Soldiers Continuing Work Incentives." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q48876.

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龍華科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
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On the basis of the national defense needs, changes in combat patterns, and technological trends, the government has been through the transformation of the “enlisting system” that recruits lasting, willing and experienced military volunteers. Combined with advanced weapons and equipment replacement, these military volunteers are modeled as “small but fine, small but strong, small but clever” professional standing forces and believed to build solid rock defense force and maintain long-term national security. To work together promoting the enlisting system, the Ministry of Defense, in accordance with government policies, has actively started the relevant supporting measures. In recent years, the Ministry of Defense has gradually improved the welfare, career planning, environmental quality, facilities, and the like to bring the army a “comfortable” and "”relaxing” environment which differs from the one in the past. The government wants to bring the troops a home, as much happiness and comfort, which purpose is to encourage outstanding young people to join the army and stay long. Because of the enlisting system, volunteer soldiers have derived its manpower from volunteers rather than mandatory service. In the near future, the overall volunteer forces will be as the main force and volunteer soldiers have gradually become important roles. Ideally, the willingness to continue service of volunteer should be high, but in reality, the ratio of the incentive to continue their service is not that high. Since soldiers and officers seem to be happier, why is the retention rate not relatively improved? The issue is worth discussing. Based on Maslow’s of hierarchy of needs theory, this study attempts to explore the factors of happiness and the factors that affect the willingness to stay, respectively, from the salary and welfare, facilities to the need and the daily life of the volunteer soldiers, to understand the volunteer soldiers on the service of the well-being of the troops, group cohesion and the awareness of organizational commitment. Constructive and effective conclusions and recommendations will be proposed to help my work go smoothly and the military forces, so that young people in the army can have a sustainable development.

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"Volunteer administrators: Problems and training needs." Tulane University, 1992.

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The study conducted by a mailed questionnaire assessed the training needs and surveyed the problems faced by 50 volunteer administrators in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas. The section on training needs was a replication of the 1987 Appel study and data on both studies were compared The study developed two scales. The Competency scale had twelve subscales: Advertising and promotion, Program planning, Volunteer training, Rewarding and recognizing, Group or process, Site planning and maintenance, Motivation, Recruiting and screening, Supervision, Money management, Interpersonal skill and Legal issues. The Problem scale had six subscales: Colleague, Job, Staff, Funding and resources, Training for volunteer administrators and Profession. Both scales reported a alpha reliability of.08 or larger The data revealed substantial differences in training needs of volunteer administrators based on age (p $<$.00) and tenure (p $<$.03). These findings differ from the Appel study. Entire sample reported a training need in the area of legal issues. The perceived lack of professionalism for the field of volunteer administration was most frequently experienced problem. Volunteer administrators who supervised less than 450 volunteers perceived problems to a greater degree than those who supervised more than 450 volunteers. Volunteer administrators who had less than 20% volunteer turnover perceived the need for training more than those who had greater than 20% of volunteer turnover
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Stirling, CM. "The volunteer citizen, health services and agency : the identity work of Australian and New Zealand ambulance volunteers." Thesis, 2007. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/7314/3/Stirling_C_The_Volunteer_Citizen_Health_Services_and_Agency.pdf.

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This thesis is an investigation of the interface between service volunteers in Australia and New Zealand and ambulance service organisations using a framework that situates them in a changing cultural and structural environment. This topic is particularly important in a political context where volunteers are viewed as a policy solution to a diversity of social ills, and where recent neoliberal policies and managerial cultural shifts have changed the service environment. Specifically this study focuses on how control and agency are evident within volunteer identity work and how this can inform our understanding of the problems experienced in the integration of volunteers into services. Empirical data was gathered in the form of texts that reflected volunteer identity work at the political level (political speeches of key Australian and New Zealand politicians), the ambulance service management level (ambulance documents and interviews with managers) and ambulance service volunteers (interviews with volunteers and secondary data from open-ended survey questions). A critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1992, 2003) of the data involved firstly generating broad identity themes from the data. Key texts that strongly reflected identity work were then selected for an in-depth textual analysis. This study found four key identities for ambulance volunteers in use within ambulance services: the Moral Volunteer, the Professional Volunteer, the Staff Volunteer, and the Self-interested Volunteer. These identities reflected a diverse range of volunteer and managerial interests. Volunteer interests were shown to include material and emotional concerns, at a personal and collective level. However, ambulance volunteers were found to lack collective agency, which led to inequitable treatment within ambulance services. Ambulance volunteers were generally under-resourced and under-managed, and the effects of this flowed to rural populations which consequently received a lower standard of service. Based on the empirical findings and drawing on governmentality theory (Foucault 1991a) and critical realist theory (Archer 2000; Bhaskar 1975), an explanatory theory of volunteering is constructed. The concepts of identity and agency allow the complexity of the volunteer/service organisation interface in a cultural and structural context to be incorporated into empirical studies. Service volunteers are conceptualised as collectives of individuals with diverse interests and local level concerns. Implications for practice include understanding how the volunteer/service interface is likely to experience ongoing difficulties without changes to organisational structures and changes to ‘thinking’ about volunteers.

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