Psychological research has found that women score higher on most measures of the traits, motivations, and values that predict helping others, and women are more likely to help family and friends. However, sex differences in the institutional helping behaviors of volunteering and charitable giving are small. This article seeks to explain this apparent contradiction with the hypotheses that men h...

Can fundraising solicitations have an effect on other types of giving, like volunteering? We report results from a field experiment in which a non-profit firm asked their current volunteers to donate money, in a randomly-staggered roll-out. We observe volunteers’ entire portfolio of giving to the firm both donations, and volunteer hours before and after the call. Overall, there was some decline...

the relationship between individual s perception of organizational justice and their social capital has been studied in this research. social capital analyzes with trust, involvement and civil leadership, giving and volunteering, informal social ties, diversity in friends. organizational justice divided in three dimensions: they are distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional jus...

With rapid trend of aging society and family disorganization, the role of private resources in strengthening social welfare activities becomes more significant. With economic development, Korean citizens’ giving culture has been settled solidly. In 2009, Korean citizen’s volunteering participation rate reached 23.9% which showed 8.5% increase compared to 2007 rate of 15.8%. Average annual volun...

There has been a steady increase in research studying the role of gender prosocial behavior, such as charitable giving and volunteering. We provide an extensive review interdisciplinary literature derive hypotheses about three different pathways that lead men women to differ their display volunteering: through social capital, motivations, resources. test these across 19 countries by analyzing 2...