Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 270-281). / Microfiche. / x, 281 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

This diploma thesis investigates the human resource management in Junak. It focuses on the basic organisational units in Junak. The topic of the diploma thesis follows the personal areas from Strategy 2022, which contains visions that are supposed to be fullfilled by 2022. The aim of this study is to monitor the practice of human resource management in organisational units with good people management. The theoretical part involves explanations of human resource management fundamental terms and engages in relevant subjects which are related. The empirical part is divided into two areas. The first one introduces the Scout movement in general, the Scout organisation in Great Britain and the organisation Junak and its strategy. It describes the organisational structures and focuses on the department of human resource management and support for volunteers. The second area is the research itself. Sixty Scout units were chosen for the study. I addressed 18 leaders of units according to some qualitative indicators and special recommendations, 14 interviews took place. Interviews focused on the practical experience, inspiration, personal attitudes and opinions of the leaders or their deputies. The main outcome of the diploma is the human resource management recommendation for basic organisational units and...

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9 pp. / Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide (10 related modules to be published in combined form) / Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide was created to help individuals and groups build a mutual foundation of basic knowledge about watersheds in Arizona. It is intended to help Arizonans understand and be good stewards of their watersheds. The guide was designed to compliment the mission of Arizona Master Watershed Steward program to educate and train citizens across the state of Arizona to serve as volunteers in the restoration, conservation, monitoring, and protection of their water and watersheds. The guide consists of 10 self-contained modules which teach about important aspects of watershed science and management.

18 pp. / Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide (10 related modules to be published in combined form) / Arizona Watershed Stewardship Guide was created to help individuals and groups build a mutual foundation of basic knowledge about watersheds in Arizona. It is intended to help Arizonans understand and be good stewards of their watersheds. The guide was designed to compliment the mission of Arizona Master Watershed Steward program to educate and train citizens across the state of Arizona to serve as volunteers in the restoration, conservation, monitoring, and protection of their water and watersheds. The guide consists of 10 self-contained modules which teach about important aspects of watershed science and management.

This thesis explores the lives of a group of fifteen exceptional women who were dedicated to the cause of advancing girls and women in sport and physical activity. Over several decades, they worked in a voluntary capacity to transform women in sport through practice and policy development. Moreover, they aligned such unpaid work with personal and local experiences of volunteering that eventually led to their participation in international sport circles and policies. The key settings for their voluntary service came from their roles in the emergence and maintenance of two international women‘s sport organisations – International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) and WomenSport International (WSI). In addition, their voluntary roles were so substantial that they were inextricably interwoven within all aspects of their lives. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to explore the participants‘ relationships with sport volunteering, in the particular settings of IAPESGW and WSI, whilst analysing the role of volunteering in their lives. The study utilised a holistic framework to gain an in-depth understanding about the women‘s commitment to the cause and how volunteering fits into their lifestyle. As there were no models from the sport volunteering field that were appropriate for this study, the research drew upon and developed Hustinx and Lammertyn‘s (2003) non-sport model called the Collective and Reflexive Styles of Volunteering (SOV). The SOV was valuable because it offered a multi-dimensional approach to explain how, why, and when the participants got involved with advancing women‘s sport and physical activity, and how their involvement related to and influenced their wider lifestyles. A critical realist and social constructionist philosophy was employed to have a greater understanding of the women‘s realities, and life history interviews were conducted to gain a greater understanding about how they constructed their knowledge about themselves, sport, and the world around them. The study illustrated the complexity of the women‘s volunteer participation. The findings suggested that their sport passion and identity guided many of their actions and activities throughout their life, such as choices for higher education and within professional work. In addition, the findings showed that it was their personal experiences and gained knowledge about gender disadvantages in sport that initially stimulated and then repeatedly reinforced their interests and commitment. Although these had strong impacts on the women‘s entrance into and commitment to the cause, the findings highlighted that the women had to identify the conditions of their relationships, family, and types of paid work to be compatible with levels of volunteering. The study concluded that sport researchers can benefit from examining volunteers from a holistic perspective to gain a better understanding of the conditions under which individuals make such an extreme, voluntary contribution to sport.

This thesis deals with volunteering at school and aims to inspire and motivate school (teachers) to involve students in volunteer activities. Volunteering is an activity which a person performs without remuneration and this activity fills and satisfies it. The first chapter is focused on high school students. It describes the development period of adolescence from the view of perspective of developmental psychology and evolutionary theories of Freud and Erikson. It also discusses students free time and studies at secondary school. The second part is about volunteering. It introduces the concept of volunteering and the motives for volunteering. It describes areas and forms of volunteer work, volunteering history, anchor of volunteering in the legislation of the Czech Republic. There are presented also organizations and projects in this part that use volunteers. Last and a central part of this thesis examines ways to engage high school students in volunteer activities. Why it makes sense to promote volunteer activities for students. It represents also the specific possibilities and ways to offer this activity and support. High school students are an important group of potential volunteers who are characterized by energy, ideas and enthusiasm. Voluntary work can be an important source of experience for them.

Trente cinq ans ont passé depuis la fin de la Guerre du Viêt Nam, mais pour les femmes ex-volontaires le combat continue. Combat pour une vie décente. À leur retour, pour s’intégrer à une vie normale, il leur a fallu dépasser toutes sortes de difficultés: d’abord celles liées à leur état de santé, puis les difficultés économiques, sociales et familiales. Bien que l’État vietnamien ait enfin adopté des mesures en leur faveur, celles-ci se sont révélées impuissantes à améliorer leur niveau de vie et à compenser leurs souffrances. Elles ont donc le sentiment de ne pas avoir été reconnues. Les résultats scientifiques de cette thèse ont montré que le choix altruiste de leur engagement pendant la guerre s’était fait sur une base « rationnelle ». Malgré certains cas d’engagements « forcés », la majorité d’entre elles se sont déterminées à partir d’un intérêt privé: venger la mort d’un proche, obéir à l’esprit révolutionnaire familial, ou goût de l’uniforme, peur du « qu’en-dira-t-on », désir d’indépendance, fuir la pauvreté familiale, laisser un garçon à la maison pour s’occuper des ancêtres et s’engager à sa place. Intérêt d’ordre personnel, familial, économique ou révolutionnaire. Rarement purement patriotique. Sur les champs de bataille, elles ont non seulement aidé les combattants en assumant les transports de munitions, de vivres, de blessés ou les travaux reconstruction des routes, mais elles ont aussi combattu aux côtés des hommes, armes à la main. Nous avons vu l’importance des éléments extérieurs, « exogènes », ayant contribué à leur souffrance, comme l’environnement géographique (montagnes, jungle et présence d’animaux dangereux ou porteurs de maladies); le climat (alternance de pluies ou de sécheresses intenses); les circonstances de guerre (bombardements, produits chimiques, blessures, exposition à la mort) et les circonstances dues aux déplacements (faim, soif, fatigue, épuisement du corps). À leur retour, ces femmes n’ont pas été reconnues. Les traces laissées sur leur corps par la guerre ont gravement perturbé leur intégration: solitude, mariage difficile, santé maladive. Leur faible niveau d’éducation ne leur permettant pas de trouver un emploi correct, c’est donc sur tous les fronts qu’elles ont dû se battre: personnel, familial et professionnel. La société, à ce jour, les distingue en six catégories: mariées, divorcées, séparées, célibataires, sans enfant et sans-abri. C’est ainsi, avec l’ensemble des ex-jeunes volontaires qui réclamaient une identité et des droits particuliers, qu’ils ont d’abord « lutté pour la reconnaissance ». Puis ont participé à la création du Comité de liaison des ex-jeunes volontaires, auquel a succédé l’Association des ex-jeunes volontaires. Cette association a constitué LA nouvelle force motrice. Elle a joué pleinement son rôle d'un témoignage historique, exigeant du Parti et des autorités locales la mise en œuvre de politiques sociales appropriées. Mais ces politiques n’ont répondu que partiellement aux attentes. « Le don et le contre-don » ne sont donc pas équitables, car cette aide demeure très insuffisante et ne touche qu’un nombre restreint de femmes, celles ayant pu conserver durant toutes ces années les fameux papiers justifiant leur engagement, et justifiant leurs blessures. / Thirty five years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, however, for the women who volunteered, the combat continues. A combat for a decent life. Upon their return, in order to integrate into a normal life, they had to go through many trials: firstly those related to their health conditions, then financial, social and family difficulties. Even though the Vietnamese State adopted measures in their favour, they turned out to be insufficient in improving their lives and compensating their suffering. They thus feel as though they have gone unrecognized. Scientific results of this Thesis have shown their altruist choice of committal to the war was made upon a "rational" basis. Despite certain cases of "forced" involvement, the majority of them were determined to leave out of personal interest: such as the vengeance of loved ones, to obey to the revolutionary family, the taste for a uniform role, fear of being outcast for not participating, a desire for independence, an escape from poverty, wanting to leave one man at home to take care of the ancestors and enrolling in his place, an interest for personnel, family, economic or revolutionary order. Rarely was their enrollment in the army pure patriotism. On the battle field, they not only helped the troops by transporting ammunition, people both well and wounded, they reconstructed the roads and fought beside the men weapons in hand. We have seen the importance of outside elements "exogenous", having contributed to their suffering, such as geographical placement, (mountainous and jungle regions and their contact with animals carrying decease; the climate change and intensified rain and dry seasons; the circumstances of war (chilling, chemical sprays, wounds, regular exposure to death) and the circumstances due to unstable living conditions such as constant movement (hunger, thirst, fatigue, physical exhaustion). Upon their return, these women went unrecognized. The traces left on their bodies by the war had seriously interfered with their reintegration into the society that they left. They returned disease-ridden to solitude, marriage problems and poor health. Their low level of education held them back from employment opportunities, leaving them to continue a new fight, one of a more personal level. The society, to this day, distinguishes them by six categories: those married, divorced, separated, and single, without children and those that are homeless. Thus it is the entire group of ex-volunteers that are seeking an identity along with certain rights as they have justly "fought for recognition" then participated in the creation of the Liaison Committee of ex-volunteers, which led to the succession of the Association ex-volunteers. This association constituted THE new motor force. It has played the role of a historic witness, forcing the Party and local authority's to value more appropriate social politics. However these politics haven't responded to any particular expectations. « The gift and return gift” are not equal, because this help has been largely insufficient and only reaches out to a restricted number of women, those who had kept their paperwork during the risky years of their engagement and those able to justify their wounds.

Introdução: Voluntário é termo polissêmico, mas, de forma geral, designa o cidadão que doa tempo, trabalho e talento, espontaneamente e sem remuneração, para causas de interesse comum. As motivações para o voluntariado são variadas, apesar de esta ação ser vista, socialmente, como altruísmo. Objetivo: Analisar as motivações para o voluntariado em um hospital público da cidade de São Paulo, especializado em HIV/Aids. Método: Estudo de caso descritivo-analítico, com base em Método Misto. A coleta de dados foi feita por entrevista semiestruturada e aplicação dos instrumentos, adaptados e validados para a população brasileira: Critério de Classificação Econômica Brasil; Inventário de Funções do Voluntariado e Questionário de Perfis de Valores Refinada. Fez-se a análise de conteúdo dos discursos e os questionários foram analisados estatisticamente. Resultados: A maioria do voluntariado é feminina, branca, solteira, natural de São Paulo, praticante de religião. Houve igual proporção de assalariados e aposentados e todos eram das classes sociais A, B ou C. Os relacionamentos sociais se mostraram importantes na motivação e vínculo com os pacientes foi, ao mesmo tempo, fonte de motivação e satisfação. Encontraram-se indícios de motivação altruísta: benevolência, como cuidado; universalismo, como compromisso; entendimento; engrandecimento social. Conclusão: A convergência das análises quantitativa e qualitativa pode indicar a coerência interna dos participantes, fortalencendo os indícios de altruísmo como motivação do grupo para o voluntariado. / Introduction: Volunteer is a polysemy word, but, in general, refers to the citizen who donates, spontaneously and without payment, time, effort and talent for causes of common interest. The motivation for volunteering is varied, although, socially, this action is considered as altruism. Objective: To analyse the motivations for volunteering in a public hospital in São Paulo, specialized on HIV / AIDS. Method: Descriptive and analytical case study, based on Mixed Method. For data collection we used semi-structured interviews and scales which are adapted and validated for Brazilian population: Economic Classification Criterion Brazil Volunteer Functions Inventory, and Refined Portrait Values Questionnaire. Data was analysed by content analysis and statistically. Results: Most of the volunteers are female, white, single, and native of Sao Paulo, religious practitioner. There were equal proportions of active workers and retirees and all participants were from social classes A, B or C. The social relationships are very important to motivation and the affective bonding with patients was, at the same time, a source of motivation and satisfaction. The results pointed out evidence of altruistic motivation: benevolence, as care; universalism, as commitment; understanding; social aggrandizement. Conclusion: The convergence of quantitative and qualitative analysis might indicate the internal coherence of the participants, what reinforces the evidence of altruism as the group\'s motivation for volunteering.