Despite strong policy support for volunteerism, Chinese social service organizations require assistance in volunteer management, particularly concerning retaining volunteers and sustaining the supply of services. By interviewing from a successful organization analyzing collected data using constructive grounded theories methods, this study found that, contrary to conclusions previous studies, (...

Business, academic, and government leaders have spoken out for professional education to integrate solid knowledge and skills with a spirit of volunteerism and community service This paper describes an example of how community service-learning has been applied in an information systems course that emphasizes information literacy required in a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

This essay outlines an applied approach for examining message reception and processing among natural disaster volunteers. It is argued that an applied approach provides analysis of volunteers’ decision-making processes that extends to cognitive, cultural, and communicative influences on the decision to volunteer. Implications for future research on volunteerism in natural disasters are discusse...

There is a growing recognition of the relevance and even centrality of volunteerism to adequate collective responses to poverty, housing and the promotion of human rights and, more recently, safety. Volunteerism by members of poor global South communities within their own communities has, however, remained relatively neglected and undescribed. This study explored the motivations, benefi ts and ...

A number of surveys indicate a rise in the percentage of elders involved in volunteer work over the past 25 years. This article identifies cultural, demographic, and programmatic factors that have contributed to this increase. After describing some current policies and programs, it identifies strategies for sustaining and expanding volunteerism by elders in the future.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior has been premeditated by various distinguished scholars and managerial connoisseurs for the last few decades. Be it Dennis Organ who disseminated theory in 1988 or any other well-known academician, interrogation of how much volunteerism is too always triumphs. The concerned study purposes to afford a lucid view potentials that an employee must possess underwr...