Download or read book The Influence of Community Service Volunteer Work on Perceptions of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Among Oregon Employees of Pacific Northwest Bell written by Sarah J. Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate employee volunteer programs are redefining "corporate social responsibility." Community benefits derived from these programs are well documented. However, there is limited research on what internal impact such programs have on the sponsoring corporations. Kast and Rosenzwieg (1978) define "organizational performance" as "effectiveness," "efficiency" and "participant satisfaction." The study focused on the latter of these components. "Job satisfaction" and "organizational commitment" were the dependent variables because of their relationship to "participant satisfaction." The study's purpose was to determine if a relationship existed between community service volunteer work and perceptions of job satisfaction and organizational commitment among Oregon employees of Pacific Northwest Bell (PNB). A random sample of 1,000 Oregon PNB employees received a mail survey with 64.6% of the surveys returned. Respondents were placed into groups according to their volunteer activity: PNB sponsored/non- PNB sponsored, PNB only, non-PNB only and none. A statistically significant relationship was found to exist between community service activity and the two dependent variables. The two groups highest in the dependent variables were involved in PNB sponsored activity. Both null hypotheses failed to be retained. There were significant main effects for both dependent variables by marital status, sex, years with PNB and age. Selected conclusions from the study were: 1. Employees involved in volunteer activity and in particular, corporate sponsored activity, appear to interact positively with the dependent variables. 2. It appears there is a relationship between community service involvement and employee perceptions that the employer encourages participation. 3. Single PNB employees, as a group, are subject to higher rates of turnover than married, divorced or widowed employees. Selected recommendations for further research included: 1. Determine if a causal relationship exists between community service volunteer work and the dependent variables. 2. Examine more closely employee perceptions of employer attitudes towards volunteer work. 3. Replicate this study in a manufacturing corporation. Compare PNB employee community service involvement with employees of a corporation that produces goods rather than providing service.

Download or read book ECIC2010 Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Intellectual Capital written by Susana Rodrigues and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book ECIC2009 2nd European Conference on Intellectual Capital written by Susana Rodrigues and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Business Ethics written by Mark Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Employee Volunteer Programs on Intent to Stay Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment Among Young Professionals written by Jessica L. Hoerter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizational Withdrawl and Organizational Citizenship Behavior A Comparison of Volunteer Workers to Paid Employees written by Roxanne Marie Laczo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The differences in organizational commitment, job satisfaction, organizational withdrawal, and organizational citizenship behavior were examined in paid employees and volunteers working in the same organization. Consistent with expectation, volunteers exhibited lower levels of organizational withdrawal than employees. Contrary to expectation, volunteer workers exhibited only slightly higher levels of organizational commitment than paid employees. Also contrary to expectation, volunteer workers exhibited substantially lower levels of organizational citizenship behavior and higher levels if intra-group coworker satisfaction than paid employees. Inter-group perceptions of coworkers contributed to the prediction of job withdrawal only. Overall, the results suggest that for both volunteer workers and paid employees, the enactment of different classes of negative and positive non-workrole behaviors depend on different attitudinal variables.

Download or read book Impact of Best Practices Management of Volunteers on Volunteer Satisfaction in a Church Setting written by Darren Kizer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract Impact of Best-Practices Management of Volunteers on Volunteer Satisfaction in a Church Setting. Darren Kizer, 2012: Applied Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler School of Education. ERIC Descriptors: Volunteer Training, Best Practices, Personnel Management, Nonprofit Organizations, Churches Leaders at a megachurch in the northeastern United States are highly dependent upon hundreds of volunteers to staff the worship services and programs. Because church attendance continues to grow, recruiting volunteers, increasing their contributions, and reducing turnover are constant necessities. Accordingly, leaders need an understanding of ways to increase volunteers' feelings of satisfaction, commitment, and investment. To address this need, the researcher reviewed best-practices management approaches in the current literature. The researcher wanted to assess to what extent the implementation of best-practices management as defined in the literature could impact volunteers' feelings of satisfaction. To assess this impact, the researcher and paid staff members in the family-ministries sector of the church conducted a 6-week intervention with the volunteers at a church campus. The intervention consisted of managing the volunteers at the treatment campus according to the best practices delineated in the literature. Using a mixed-methods approach, the researcher gathered quantitative data from pre- and postintervention surveys that measured the volunteers' perceptions of satisfaction with their volunteer work. The researcher also collected qualitative data from focus groups in order to supplement and assess the quantitative data. Contrary to expectations, the between-groups analysis revealed heterogeneous groups and did not demonstrate statistical significance on any of the 6 research questions. As expected, after the implementation of the best-practices intervention, the within-group treatment scores on all scales were greater than their paired pretest scores. The treatment group's paired scores on volunteer satisfaction, organization support, and organizational commitment increased at statistically significant levels. The increased scores provided some support for the hypothesis that implementation of best-practice management of volunteers would increase satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to remain.

Download or read book Volunteers written by Jone L. Pearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volunteersis the first comprehensive look at the organizational behavior of volunteer workers, drawing upon both original research and the existing scholarly work in this field. Author Jone L. Pearce critiques the employee-centered theories of such subfields as organizational design, motivation, organizational commitment, workplace interpersonal influence, leadership, the role of values, and the effects of compensation. She proposes significant additions and modifications based on a detailed empirical analysis of two matching groups of seven organizations each, one volunteer-run and staffed, the other employee staffed. Much of the existing advice to volunteers or those employing them can be misleading or unhelpful. Pearce looks at successful and unsuccessful organizations in areas such as the arts, social services and health care. She discusses the implications of volunteers on general theories of organizational behavior and outlines the practical effects of an understanding of volunteer workers for all organizations employing them. Volunteerswill be valuable to managers, psychologists, and all interested in organizational behavior.

Download or read book Perceptions of Volunteering and Community Service written by Randall G. Blakely and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although community colleges have emphasized service-learning programs for traditional students, by in large, non-traditional students from post-secondary remedial programs have not been involved. This lack of reaching post-secondary remedial programs may be of particular interest to college personnel who may not be aware of the need to include service activities for non-traditional students in ways that will help them become caring individuals and strive toward a positive future. This study was guided by the following research questions: 1. What are the perceptions of Skill Center completers who were involved in volunteering and community service? 2. What are the opportunities for connecting their service involvement to the community college? The study examined the perceptions of 15 former post-secondary remedial students involved in community service and volunteering. All of the participants in the study were persons of color, 12 of the l5 were identified as African-American, one as Latino, and one as Asian. The data were collected through in-depth interviews conducted by the researcher from a participant-observer position and focused on service interactions and the types of understandings each participant developed in relation to the people they met. Voices of post-secondary remedial students who successfully complete volunteering or community service activities on their own and without any college sponsorship are rarely heard. Participants in this study described a variety of service experiences that provided insight into the social connection among a community of people. The most often cited themes were the participants' personal service reflections, their relationship with others, community building, and their motivation for service. Critical benefits to the participants were how service involvement helped clarify their life and allowed them to learn more about themselves. Participants told of the advantages of working together and being committed to the community, which gave them a sense of connection. Participants also revealed that volunteering actually opened doors for employment opportunities. These experiences were beneficial both from the viewpoint of the acquisition of skills and a feeling of personal ownership and pride. Another benefit for participants engaged in service was to transform their feelings into an ethic of caring, social capital, and personal transformation.

Download or read book Young Adults in the Workplace written by Jeremy W. Bray and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funded the multisite Young Adults in the Workplace (YIW) initiative to study the effectiveness of diverse approaches to workplace-based prevention of substance abuse. Six teams adapted evidence-based programs to target young employees and then implemented the programs in retail, restaurant, health care, construction, skilled trade, and transportation industry workplaces. This book describes the programs, the adaptation and implementation processes, and the YIW cross-site evaluation.

Download or read book Perceived Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction written by Yui-Kee Leung and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Job Satisfaction Organizational Commitment and Intention to Remain in the Youth and Community Service written by Wai-lin Fung (Pauline) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Community Service on High School Students Perceptions of Nonprofit and Public Organizations written by Lara Pepp Rajninger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is designed to determine whether early exposure to nonprofit organizations through a hands-on volunteer experience increases students' knowledge of and affects students' attitudes toward pursuing a nonprofit career, a lifestyle of service, or both. The results from the survey instrument were analyzed by a comparison of scores, means, standard deviations, paired t-tests, independent t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's honestly significant difference (Tukey's HSD). The results of this research indicate that students perceive that volunteering in the nonprofit sector has a positive influence on their attitudes toward nonprofit organizations, prompting a desire for a philanthropic lifestyle. For more that 50 percent of students, the influence was positive in terms of affecting attitude toward nonprofit organizations and stimulating a desire to pursue a lifestyle of service. For the remainder, volunteering positively affected attitude toward nonprofit and public organizations but did not stimulate a desire to pursue a career in the nonprofit sector. In fact, for some students, performing community service may have a negative impact on their desire to pursue a nonprofit or public career. The primary conclusion drawn is that volunteering may have a profound impact, be it positive or negative, on whether young people pursue a career in the nonprofit sector, adopt a lifestyle of service, or both.

Download or read book From Doer to Stayer written by Michael Francis Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustained volunteering – the continued service of a volunteer with a particular organisation – is a critical issue for organisations that depend on the contribution of volunteers for the continuation of their programs and the achievement of their goals. The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to which selected dispositional and organisational factors influence a volunteer’s sustained involvement with a community service organisation.A conceptual model of sustained volunteering was developed based on Omoto and Snyder’s Volunteer Process Model (Omoto & Snyder, 1995, 2002) and on perspectives drawn from the theory of planned behaviour and psychological contract theory. This model included the following dispositional and organisational variables: motivation to volunteer, benefits of volunteering, motivation-benefit match, self-efficacy for volunteering, collective efficacy of the organisation, satisfaction with the volunteering experience, affective organisational commitment and intention to continue volunteering. Demographic and contextual variables were included as potentially explanatory variables. The questionnaire which surveyed these variables comprised original scales and established psychosocial scales. A cross-sectional survey design was used. Responses were received from 454 volunteers, which represents an overall response rate of 71%, from three community service organisations: the St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW & ACT), the NSW Rural Fire Service and the Benevolent Society. The statistical analysis of the data included correlational as well as path analysis to build a structural equation model that fits the data with high reliability. The resultant empirical model has high explanatory power of sustained volunteering within this sample group.Affective commitment and collective efficacy emerged as the strongest predictors of sustained volunteering; other significant influences included self-efficacy in handling volunteering tasks, social motivation, and the matching of benefits to motivation based on personal values. Satisfaction, self-efficacy, and matching of benefits to values and social motivations were significant direct influences on affective commitment and, hence, indirect influences on sustained volunteering.This research contributes significantly to knowledge of volunteering. This research builds on and extends prior models of volunteering by testing a new model of sustained volunteering which includes multiple dispositional and organisational variables and, critically, uses a large sample and diverse population. The diversity of this sample argues for the generalisability of the model across sectors and organisations that rely on volunteers and are concerned to sustain continuity of service of volunteers. The use of this model, as well as the inclusion of self-efficacy and collective efficacy measures, adds to methodological and conceptual development in volunteer research. The findings of this study further advance the discourse in research on volunteers by focusing on the individual within the context of the organisation – the sustained iv involvement of the volunteer – rather than focusing on the perspective of the organisation – volunteer retention. Moreover, the model focusses on a volunteer’s continued volunteering with a particular organisation rather than their continuation as a volunteer per se based on volunteer role identity.This study further adds to the knowledge of volunteers’ motivations, their perceived effectiveness as a volunteer, and their perceptions of the volunteering experience, and provides organisations with important information and insights to assist them in managing their volunteer resource. The findings of this study indicate also that organisations would benefit from viewing the volunteer’s involvement from the perspective of the volunteer, not only from the organisation’s perspective." -- Abstract.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Individual Task and Context related Factors Influencing the Organizational Behaviour of Volunteers written by Tina Saksida and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how various individual, task-, and context-related factors influence important volunteering outcomes. Using data sourced from a large international aid and development agency in the United Kingdom, the three studies that follow explore the organizational behaviour of volunteers and highlight several initiatives that nonprofit organizations can introduce in order to motivate and retain their volunteers. In the first chapter, I present a moderated mediation model where I show that prosocially motivated volunteers dedicate more time to volunteering. The study results further show that volunteer engagement fully mediates the relationship between the value motive and volunteer time, and that the strength of the mediated effect varies as a function of volunteers' commitment to beneficiaries. These findings provide a new perspective on the link between volunteers' motivation and active participation in volunteer activities. The second chapter presents a framework for understanding the processes through which volunteers' perceived impact on beneficiaries influences their turnover intentions and time spent volunteering. The results show that volunteers who perceive that their work impacts beneficiaries (1) report lower intentions to leave their volunteer organization due to their commitment to that organization; and (2) dedicate more time to volunteering because they are committed to the beneficiaries of their work. These findings make a significant contribution to volunteering research by uncovering two different mechanisms that explain how the positive consequences of perceived impact on beneficiaries may unfold. Finally, the third chapter presents a mediation model that explains how an organizational support framework promotes organizational commitment in volunteers. Specifically, the results show that training and paid staff support promote higher levels of volunteers' organizational commitment due to increases in volunteers' perceptions of role clarity and self-efficacy. Importantly, this study illustrates how volunteer managers can use two management practices that are under their control to maximize the commitment of volunteers.

Download or read book Corporate Volunteer Programs written by Cathleen Wild and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study based on a survey of 454 U.S. corporations conducted by the Conference Board and the Points of Light Foundation. It demonstrates a recognition that volunteer programs are one of the best ways for corporations to support their involvement in the community.