‘Putting a Foot in the Door’: Volunteer Hiring and Organizational Form

Volunteer Hiring, Organizational Form and the Provision of Mission – Oriented Goods

Mission-oriented organizations, such as nonpro…t organizations and NGOs, rely critically on volunteer recruitment to achieve their organizational goals. Besides serving as an outlet of altruistic motives, volunteering often acts as a stepping-stone for a paid position in the nonpro…t sector. This paper provides an explanation for the fact that nonpro…t employers are uniquely able to attract suc...

Getting your foot in the door.

Getting Your Foot in the Door:

The answer is nearly always that you can. But should you? That’s another question entirely. And, if you do, how do you go about it? Most lawyers know that the answer to the latter question, at the most basic level, is that you file a petition for a writ of certiorari. But, beyond that, many litigators have little or no experience with the nuts and bolts of how to prepare and file a “cert petiti...

Self-Concept Clarity and the Foot-in-the-Door Procedure

The deceptively simple foot-in-the-door technique is the oldest and most widely researched of the sequential-request compliance procedures investigated by social psychologists. Since its introduction by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the procedure has been examined in more than a hundred published studies and has been the topic of several reviews and meta-analyses (Beaman, Cole, Preston, Klentz, &...

A Foot in the Door for Dermatophyte Research

Dermatophytes are a group of filamentous fungi that cause infections of the skin (see Figure 1 for diseases, Figure 2 for typical dermatophyte species). Diseases caused by dermatophytes include athlete’s foot, ringworm, jock itch, and nail infections (onychomycosis). The medical terminology for dermatophyte infections is to use the word tinea (to denote a fungal infection of the skin) followed ...