How to hire helpers? Evidence from a field experiment

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reggiani, Tommaso; Rilke, Rainer Michael; Sliwka, Dirk

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“…Even though in our study, healthcare providers proposed to give nancial incentives, some studies demonstrated that the amount given may impact the work of the volunteer. Indeed, a study showed that giving small money to volunteers does not help and impact negatively their work, on the other hand when volunteers in the same experiment were offered larger monetary rewards, hours they offered to work were high ; showing that in the absence of budget constraints, money may help to motivate volunteer staff [26,27]. Another study indicated that a volunteer programme can meet needs and be a motivational force for both the individual volunteer and the organization.…”

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Barriers and Facilitators to Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation in Côte D’Ivoire: A Qualitative Study

Kourouma¹,

Yacé²,

Doukouré³

et al. 2021

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BackgroundKangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a key high impact intervention, low technology and cost-effective for the care of preterm and low birth weight newborn. Côte d’Ivoire has adopted the intervention and opened the first KMC unit in 2019. After one year of functioning, we aimed to assess barriers and facilitators of KMC implementation as well as proposed solutions to improve KMC implementation in Côte d’Ivoire.MethodThis was a qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews, carried out in September 2020 in the first KMC unit opened at the Teaching Hospital of Treichville. The study involved healthcare providers providing KMC and mothers of newborn who were receiving or received KMC at the unit. A thematic analysis was performed using Nvivo 12.ResultsA total of 44 semi-structured interviews were conducted, 12 with healthcare providers and 32 with mothers. The barriers identified were lack of supplies, insufficiency of human resources, lack of space for admission, lack of home visits, lack of food for mothers, lack of collaboration between health services involved in newborn care, increased workload, the beliefs of carrying the baby on the chest, partner resistance, low rate of exclusive breastfeeding, lack of community awareness. Facilitators identified were training of healthcare providers, leadership, the cost of the intervention, the value of the intervention for healthcare providers, mothers −healthcare providers relationship, mothers’ adherence to KMC.The proposed solution to improve KMC implementation were volunteer staff motivation, intensifying mothers and families education and counselling, the recruitment of a psychologist and the involvement of all stakeholders.ConclusionsOur study highlighted the challenges to implement KMC in Côte d’Ivoire with unique and specific barriers to implementation. We recommend to researchers and decision makers to respectively design strategies and adopt intervention that specifically address these barriers and facilitators to a better uptake of KMC. Decision makers should also take into account the proposed solution for a better implementation and scaling up of KMC intervention.

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Barriers and Facilitators to Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation in Côte D’Ivoire: A Qualitative Study

Kourouma¹,

Yacé²,

Doukouré³

et al. 2021

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“…Increasing the performance of volunteers is not a simple task, especially because incentives that seem reasonable at first glance (such as pay for performance) have been shown to backfire. Indeed, extrinsic rewards seem to crowd out intrinsic motivation (Gneezy and Rustichini 2000), at least for low monetary incentives and relatively weak extrinsic motivators (Conrads et al 2016). The vast majority of people volunteer not for monetary reasons but many for a so-called "warm glow," a positive feeling (Andreoni 1989;Ellingsen and Johannesson 2009;Bauer et al 2013, Brown et al 2019.…”

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“…Volunteers "display a stronger desire to donate time and effort than to donate money" (Brown et al 2019, p. 33). Mentioning extrinsic rewards seems to reduce intrinsic motivation among volunteers (Conrads et al 2016). A crucial factor that explains the variability in intrinsic motivation is the perceived meaningfulness of a task.…”

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“…It became evident that rewarded volunteers worked fewer hours than volunteers who received no compensation. Similarly, Conrads et al (2016) found in a field experiment that offering small monetary rewards does not help or even becomes detrimental compared to a pure volunteering treatment or the opportunity to get a certificate. On the other hand, in line with neoclassical reasoning, when volunteers in the same experiment were offered larger monetary rewards, hours they offered to work were high.…”

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“…Compared to a control group, the results show only a small positive effect on volunteered hours, and only for those volunteers who are mostly motivated by career concerns. Conrads et al (2016) find potential detrimental effects of seemingly useful rewards, such as waiving a fee for student volunteers helping at a conference, which massively decreased the number of work hours offered.…”

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In absence of money: a field experiment on volunteer work motivation

Mertins

Walter

2020

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Although volunteers are a critical resource for non-profit organizations, little is known about how best to motivate them to work. A non-profit organization asked episodic volunteers to produce handmade greeting cards to sell at a fundraising event. By running a natural field experiment, we study the effect of motivating these volunteers through (a) the opportunity to vote on how the money that was raised would be spent and (b) the prospect of individual performance feedback. We find an economically and statistically significant positive effect of both tools on the quantity of work done, while the quality is mostly unaffected. Moreover, we observe significant gender differences in responsiveness to the treatments. While the prospect for feedback is more motivating to men, women respond more strongly to the opportunity to decide how the money would be spent. Empowerment seems to be a simple way to increase engagement for people with low enjoyment.

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How to hire helpers? Evidence from a field experiment

Cited by 10 publications

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Barriers and Facilitators to Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation in Côte D’Ivoire: A Qualitative Study

Barriers and Facilitators to Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation in Côte D’Ivoire: A Qualitative Study

In absence of money: a field experiment on volunteer work motivation

Permutation tests for experimental data

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