Challenges to the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers in Traditional Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Australian Meals on Wheels

Warburton, Jennifer; Moore, Melissa; Oppenheimer, Melanie

doi:10.1080/01900692.2017.1390581

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“…In some cases, alignment of identity is essential to a nonprofit organization, with Brandt (1998) demonstrating that Girl Scout Leader retention can be increased when the Leader's self-image merged with the role. In contrast, an extra challenge to managing volunteers in the Australian Meals on Wheels program is the divergence of values, with older volunteers actively resisting change to new policy directions (Warburton et al, 2018).…”

Section: Implications For Nonprofit Managementmentioning

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Volunteer Retention Motives and Determinants across the Volunteer Lifecycle

Merrilees

Miller

Yakimova

2019

Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing

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The focus of the paper is on better understanding volunteer retention. A broad-based survey of fourteen Australian nonprofit organizations develops an expanded quantitative model of volunteer retention by adding two new antecedents: values-congruency and altruistic motives to previous modelling. The study generates a more comprehensive set of rankings of volunteer retention motives, with altruism receiving top ranking. Using exploratory factor analysis, the study develops a new three-item perspective of altruism, combining helping, service and the cause. A new fourphase framework of the volunteer lifecycle is also developed. Investigating changes in retention motives over the life cycle reveals a major and unexpected finding, that the altruistic motive may actually become more important as volunteers move through the lifecycle.

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Section: Implications For Nonprofit Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Volunteer Retention Motives and Determinants across the Volunteer Lifecycle

Merrilees

Miller

Yakimova

2019

Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing

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“…More recent studies, however, indicate that the increased bureaucratization of the non-profit organizations results from increased regulation as well as more formal requirements for processes and working methods (Grønbjerg 1991;Warburton et al 2018;Baines et al 2011;Frumkin and Kim 2002). Furthermore,this has created a development towards an isomorphic transformation that again has changed the ethos of the organizations from informal and often smaller organizations to larger, more formalized organizations (Milbourne og Murray 2017;Aiken and Harries 2017).…”

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How Funding of Non-profit Social Organizations Affects the Number of Volunteers

Clausen

2021

Voluntas

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“…Transaktionsomkostninger vil hovedsageligt vaere arbejdstid anvendt på ansøgning, forhandling og opfølgning (McKay 2013), og både internationale (Pott 2017;Warburton et al 2018) og danske studier (Espersen et al 2018, p. 91) viser, at disse funktioner i høj grad fordrer administrative akademiske kompetencer. Dog kan transaktionsomkostninger også optraede i form af likviditetsbelastninger og manglende kapacitetsudnyttelse, eksempelvis pga.…”

Section: Teoretiske Forklaringer På Hvordan Finansiering Påvirker Omfanget Af Administrative Medarbejdere I Frivillige Organisationerunclassified

“…I denne artikel undersøges sammenhaengen mellem finansiering og omfanget af administrative akademiske årsvaerk i landsdaekkende frivillige sociale organisationer i Danmark. Der findes en raekke internationale studier på dette område, men langt størsteparten fokuserer på udviklingen i administrative omkostninger som følge af statslige kontrakter og projekter (Dudkin & Välilä (2005); Frumkin & Kim 2008;Pandey et al 2018;Warburton et al 2018), hvilket er en uhensigtsmaessig indskraenkning, fordi de undersøgte organisationer henter 47 % af deres indtaegter fra staten og 53 % fra private kilder (Clausen 2021).…”

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Transaktionsomkostninger i frivillige sociale organisationer

Clausen

2021

NAT

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Stigende brug af målrettede sociale investeringer har medført en relevant forskningsmæssig interesse for transaktionsomkostninger i sociale indsatser. Men hovedparten af forskningen er præget af to udfordringer: Dels at analyserne oftest begrænser sig til offentlige indtægtskilder og således udelader private kilder, dels at transaktionsomkostningerne måles ud fra selvdeklarerede oplysninger om administrative omkostninger. Denne artikel bidrager til forskningsfeltet på to måder. For det første med en analysemodel, der samler private og offentlige indtægtskilder i én model, hvilket giver en unik mulighed for at sammenligne transaktionsomkostningerne fra disse to kilder. For det andet måles transaktionsomkostninger ud fra den faktiske udvikling i antallet af administrative akademiske årsværk i organisationerne. Derved opnås også en bedre kobling til teorien på området, som fokuserer på netop administrative medarbejdere. Artiklens datagrundlag udgøres af et paneldatasæt for perioden 2012-17 med regnskabsoplysninger om indtægter i de landsdækkende frivillige sociale organisationer samt registeroplysninger fra Danmarks Statistik om medarbejderes uddannelse og timetal i de samme organisationer. Det vises, at målrettede projektmidler fra private kilder medfører markant højere transaktionsomkostninger end både statslige projektmidler og faste offentlige bevillinger, og at mindre organisationer generelt har højere omkostninger ved at skaffe finansiering end større organisationer med stordriftsfordele.

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Challenges to the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers in Traditional Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Australian Meals on Wheels

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Volunteer Retention Motives and Determinants across the Volunteer Lifecycle

Volunteer Retention Motives and Determinants across the Volunteer Lifecycle

How Funding of Non-profit Social Organizations Affects the Number of Volunteers

Transaktionsomkostninger i frivillige sociale organisationer

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