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A Study on Volunteers¡¦ Job Characteristics, Role Playing and Job Satisfaction of Docents in the Museums¡G A Case study of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

A Study on Volunteers¡¦ Job Satisfaction from Job Characteristics and Role Playing of Museum Docent ¡GA Case study of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
The functions of museum become into four fields, the research, book reservation, exhibition and education, from initial preservation and display. Recently, the museum emphasizes the humanities spirit and leisure life so that it focuses the functions on entertainment, leisure and consumption besides artistic education. How to let people feel the museum is an inseparable part in the life when they close to museums. People feel the interpretation of exhibition and discover the possibilities of knowledge from the visiting process and participation experience.
The museum is a place where provides people to study and entertain. Docent volunteers in the first line of education promotion integrate essence from each department to interact with people and provide them the new esthetic experience. However, it¡¦s not easy to train a professional docent volunteer who does not only has the specialized knowledge , but also has scientist's research spirit, archaeologist's careful valuation, historian's value critique, writer's esthetic language and educationist's experience transformation. Therefore, how to let the docent volunteers working constantly not to back out of the team that tests the managing interaction pattern of staffs in museums. The docent volunteer is a special role between the staff in the museum and audiences. If they do their best in the wok, they will obtain more identification with value from audiences.
The researcher takes the case study of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts to discuss the effect upon job satisfaction of volunteers from the job characteristics and role playing of museum. The job characteristics and role playing of docent volunteers that is influential for job satisfaction and that was discovered by depth interview, field study, work participation and analysis. The research provides the ideas about planning the recruitment and execution project for administrators working in the museums and emerging museums.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0716107-140416
Date16 July 2007
CreatorsLeou, Chih-wen
Contributorsnone, H. Jason Huang, none, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0716107-140416
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