Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities

Davies, Amanda; Lockstone‐Binney, Leonie; Holmes, Kirsten

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.025

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“…Notably, electrical fires constituted the primary cause, contributing to 34.7% of rural fires, with electrical line faults, in particular, accounting for nearly 80% of all electrical fire incidents. 13 Careless fire handling represented the second major cause, contributing to 21.6% of rural fires. In contrast to urban areas, rural fires also had notable contributions from agricultural production activities, funeral ceremonies, and fireworks incidents.…”

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“…12 By the same token, Davies et al delved into the role of volunteers in rural communities in Western Australia, offering recommendations to focus rural volunteer recruitment on essential skills. 13 In Canada, Colibaba et al conducted a case study of a rural volunteer fire department in Ontario. 14 Furthermore, Bailis et al studied the retrofitting of cooking fires in rural communities in western Kenya.…”

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Examining China's rural fire protection within the rural revitalization strategy: An in‐depth policy research

Li,

2023

Fire and Materials

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Currently, rural fire protection issues in China loom large, resulting in frequent fire incidents due to an inadequate rural fire infrastructure and insufficient firefighting resources. Consequently, prompt fire suppression becomes challenging, leading to significant casualties and economic losses. To address these challenges and align with the national rural revitalization strategy, our research team dedicated 5 years to meticulously scrutinizing fire incident data in China spanning from 2012 to 2022, alongside an extensive review of international documents. We conducted on‐site investigations in rural areas across 63 cities in 11 provinces, including Anhui and Jiangsu. By analyzing fire data and field investigation results, we identified the causes and percentages of 11 types of rural fires, as well as summarized five types of rural fire hazards and six types of rural fires. Drawing from insights gleaned from the experiences of countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and South America, we have formulated eight policy recommendations for rural fire protection, encompassing aspects like organization, responsibility, planning, construction, operation, and maintenance, as well as public awareness. Therefore, we anticipate that this study will catalyze enhancing rural fire protection efforts in China and other developing nations.

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Examining China's rural fire protection within the rural revitalization strategy: An in‐depth policy research

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2023

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“…Supporting leadership refers to the characteristics of being friendly, close, and caring for members of the organization. There is a relationship of mutual trust and respect between the leader and the members of the organization [25]. The leader cares about the lives of the members of the organization through mutual trust.…”

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Stimulating the Influence of Teaching Effectiveness and Students’ Learning Motivation by Using the Hierarchical Linear Model

2022

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In the context of school learning and teaching, teachers are leaders who stimulate students’ learning outcomes through leadership styles. The teacher efficacy of this study is discussed by using multiple teaching and class management strategies. Because the situation of each school is different, the contingency theory is used to design the research structure. This study changed the original leadership style to the new leadership style; effectiveness to teacher effectiveness; and context to school context, and set them as moderators. Since the unit of analysis is teachers, it is difficult to find factors such as differences in regression coefficients in the school context. Therefore, the HLM hierarchical linear analysis is used, and the school context is set as the second level, and then statistical analysis is performed. Teachers’ leadership styles have significant differences in multiple teaching strategies for teacher effectiveness. Moral leadership and charismatic leadership have a moderating effect on the multiple teaching strategies of teacher effectiveness. The multiple teaching strategies of teacher effectiveness have a significant effect in middle school situations with lower moral leadership. On the other hand, charismatic leadership is more pronounced in middle school situations than in high school situations. Teachers’ leadership styles have a significant impact on classroom management of teacher effectiveness. Under the situational control of schools, moral leadership, charismatic leadership, and supportive leadership have moderating effects on classroom management of teacher effectiveness. When the classroom management of teacher effectiveness is in the middle school situation, low moral leadership is more significant; in the high school situation, charismatic leadership will reduce the effectiveness of the class management; in the moderate or high situation, the higher the support of the leader, the greater the effect of class management.

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“…VIOs are struggling to attract and retain enough volunteers to sustain their activities. Volunteering rates have been on the decline for a decade across the world, and this decline has worsened during the pandemic (Davies et al, 2021; Luksyte et al, 2021). In just 4 years, from 2018 to 2021, almost half (44%) of the global volunteer workforce stopped volunteering, a loss equivalent to 48 million full-time workers (Forner et al, 2022;Holmes et al, 2022; UNV, 2018 UNV, , 2022.…”

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Making the volunteer journey a better one with I-O psychology knowledge

Gagné,

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Forner

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Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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We concur with Tippins et al. (2023) that not-for-profit and volunteer-involving organizations (VIOs) have not had enough access to the expertise of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists, and volunteer managers rarely have access to professional development opportunities that stem from I-O psychology knowledge. Through collaborative research partnerships with VIOs, our team of I-O psychology researchers have spent the last two decades building the science to inform and guide evidence-based volunteer management practices that enhance the volunteer journey. Our work spans a great part of this volunteer journey , from helping VIOs attract the right volunteers (Holtrop et al., 2020), to enhancing VIOs' onboarding (Dunlop, Holtrop, et al., 2022), and improving the quality of the volunteering experience through designing better volunteer work (Millette & Gagné, 2008) and enhancing leadership (Forner, 2019;Gagné, 2003). In providing commentary, we hope to enrich the conversation by offering an I-O-psychology researcher perspective on volunteer work to complement the valuable case studies in the focal article.Our research stems from a practical need to address significant workforce issues facing the volunteering sector. VIOs are struggling to attract and retain enough volunteers to sustain their activities. Volunteering rates have been on the decline for a decade across the world, and this decline has worsened during the pandemic (Davies et al., 2021; Luksyte et al., 2021). In just 4 years, from 2018 to 2021, almost half (44%) of the global volunteer workforce stopped volunteering, a loss equivalent to 48 million full-time workers (Forner et al., 2022;Holmes et al., 2022; UNV, 2018 UNV, , 2022. VIOs have had to adapt to the lifestyle and work-related changes (e.g., rising costs of living, prevalence of contract work and "fly in-fly out" work) that hamper volunteers' commitment to regular and long-term volunteering.Some VIOs have large volunteer workforce. Scouts Australia currently has over 20,000 adult volunteers running the programs, many of whom volunteer between 10 and 20 hr per week. In 2019, on the eve of one of the worst bushfires the country ever faced, Australia counted over 195,000 volunteer firefighters and support staff. Other countries also rely heavily on volunteer firefighters: China counted over 7.5M of them in 2019, whereas Germany had close to a million. Training and managing these volunteer numbers without proper resources, let alone expertise, would likely be disastrous. Yet, VIOs render crucial services to nations that cover health and social assistance, education, and emergency services.Following the first author, author order is alphabetical reflecting equal contributions.

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Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Examining China's rural fire protection within the rural revitalization strategy: An in‐depth policy research

Examining China's rural fire protection within the rural revitalization strategy: An in‐depth policy research

Stimulating the Influence of Teaching Effectiveness and Students’ Learning Motivation by Using the Hierarchical Linear Model

Making the volunteer journey a better one with I-O psychology knowledge

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