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A factor analysis using an oblique rotation was performed on an employee attitude survey developed for a data processing company. The survey was administered to 669 volunteer employees. There were 291 males and 378 females. It was hypothesized that four main factors would be identified as "Advancement Opportunities," "Compensation and Benefits," "Management Style," and "Job." Results of the factor analysis did not confirm the hypothesized a priori factor structure. The lack of confirmation of the hypothesized factor structure was found to be a result of poor survey construction. The attitude survey was found not to be a valid measure of employee attitudes. Implications of this study suggest that a poorly constructed attitude survey may be worse than no survey at all.

An overview of the role of the volunteer in the field of social work through the past, during the present, and looking to the future. The following observations may be made: 1. The volunteer--the citizen participant--was and is the main power behind the social welfare movement from the earliest days of recorded history to the present 20th century. 2. The role of the volunteer has always been one of service to his fellow man. 3. The volunteer when given an opportunity can turn in a fine piece of work; he is anxious and willing to work and cooperate. 4. The social agencies, whatever kind, case work, group work, community organization, public or private, large and small can benefit from intelligent and planned use of volunteers. 5. Planning, treatment and supervision are the tools by which an agency can best use volunteer services. 6. The volunteer because of his place in the community is a powerful source of interpretation for an agency, working both ways--interpreting the work by the agency to the community and interpreting the needs of the community to the agency. / Typescript. / "June 1950." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: Margaret C. Bristol, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 27-28).

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.

The objective of this research is to shed light on the phenomenon of independent volunteer traveling. It represents a form of tourism in which travelers independently organize their own volunteer efforts and typically provide assistance to local people in return for room and board. Travelers operate outside the confines of formal service organizations and various tourist groups, in conditions of close cross-cultural contact, often teaching and providing manual labor. They live with locals, speak the local language, use the same amounts of economic and natural resources that locals use, and eat, sleep, bathe and work in the same fashion as the local people do. Because this type of tourism takes place in remote Himalayan villages that are not in touristed areas, social arrangements are based on local tradition and culture, rather than on external forces. This research specifically links independent volunteer traveling with sustainable tourism development by examining its impacts. For instance, the majority of travelers in the study helped to create additional sources of income for local people by donating animals and land to families, which helped hosts to improve their living standards and boosted local economies in remote Himalayan regions, contributing towards the development of Nepal's rural communities. In addition, because of the many opportunities offered by this type of tourism, Nepali women were encouraged to eat with their families, get married at a later age, get an education and be treated more fairly in family situations, which contributed towards improving the status of women. The evidence of this research also indicates that there is a complex dynamic present in the interaction between hosts and guests when giving and receiving activities are examined. In particular, a sense of mutual interdependence and equality were maintained between hosts and guests, because no matter who was giving and who was receiving, both parties continued to feel they received more than they were able to give. Because of the joy and meaning it added to their lives, this aspect of the experience had the most profound effect on both hosts and guests, and made this form of tourism stand out against comparable cross-cultural encounters. In an era searching for improved forms of international relations, this kind of travel poses an interesting alternative, because it depends solely on the opportunity for travelers to contribute to the host culture and on the development of meaningful cross-cultural relationships. / Graduation date: 2003 / Best scan available for photos. Original has a moray pattern.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio State University, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-97). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000.

Abstract This study is to discuss the topic of human resource management on the Volunteer Recruiting and Employ Project of the 2009 World Games Kaohsiung. By documentary analysis and synthesis it is about to find out the internal and external factors which influenced the operation procedure in the KOC organization, and to know the status of volunteer recruiting and volunteer management. The conclusions of this study are presented as follows: 1. At present most of the recruited volunteers are students with high academic degree, and there is only 60% of them with the English ability to communicate to people from different countries. 2. Among the national nonprofit sports organizations, Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation and Chinese Taipei School Sports Federation are suitable to be invited to participate in KOC. Among the national sports associations, it is worthy to invite the members of those associations to be the expert volunteer of KOC. Universities and the student¡¦s clubs are the main objects to be encouraged to join the volunteer group and general volunteer. 3. KOC should encourage people from different areas not only in Taiwan but also from overseas to take a part in the World Games. Inside of the KOC organization, it is needed to take more coordination and communication. And it is necessary to make the precise division of labor between KOC and Kaohsiung City Government. The recruiting of World Games Volunteer Group needs to be paid more attention to. 4. The discrepancy of statistics on the volunteer manpower demand is great different between the World Games Volunteer Recruiting and Employ Project(2004) and the statistics from each bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government in 2007. 5. KOC has the well-planned training and service programme for the volunteers. But the reemploy project following the ending of the World Games is needed to be raised as early as possible.

This study analyzes the rhetorical strategies of an international public service organization. Drawing upon narrative criticism, volunteer related literatures of the Continental Societies, Inc. were studied in order to gauge their rhetorical efficacy in light of the existing literature on nonprofit organizations and volunteerism. By analyzing the organization’s literatures – their “story” – it was discovered that part of it was missing. In an attempt to fill this void, more effective materials related to volunteer recruitment and retention have been created to exemplify greater narrative fidelity, along with recommended organizational transformations that create a better fit between these “stories” and the truth of them.

This thesis explores the author’s experience of fieldwork in Western Ghana while volunteering to promote gender equality at an elementary school. Analyzing the stages of preparation for fieldwork, situating the self in the field, conducting fieldwork, and returning from the field, illustrate some of the strengths and weaknesses of NGO and volunteer involvement for the combined purposes of conducting ethnographic fieldwork. Reflecting on these processes and the presence of the researcher allows for a critical understanding of issues in the field; such as children’s responsibility and ethnic discrimination. The complex of the researcher’s multiple identities in the field, including volunteer, researcher, and white woman, affect the experience and results of the fieldwork; the significance of which is reflected upon through autoethnography.