Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among College Student Volunteers

Nazilah, M.A. Siti; Rozmi, I.; Fauziah, I.

doi:10.3923/ibm.2012.512.516

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“…The finding was steady with previous studies among volunteer in several fields. According to the research in public universities Peninsular Malaysia (n=350), understanding function (r = .317, p<.05) has higher relationship with organization commitment among student college volunteer compared with other function (Siti-Nazilah et al, 2012). Moreover, similar result also showed by Salas (2008) through his study in Marion County government volunteer which placed in Ocala, Florida.…”

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“…However, this study ascertains the moderate level of relationship of variables in term of motivation. This condition possibly explained that generally motivation was not strongly become important part for organizational commitment (Siti-Nazilah et al, 2012). Scout volunteer were able to fulfill their needs and involvement without compulsory having a bunch of emotionally with organization.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among Scout Volunteers in East Kalimantan

Rahmawati

Abiddin²,

Rois³

2014

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Numerous studies have been concerned on organizational commitment among profit worker oppositely organizational commitment's studies which focused on nonprofit worker tend to be lack. Nonprofit employee generally recruit and involve volunteer to run their program. Several nonprofit organizations' program is related to non-formal education. For that matter, this study was conducted to evaluate volunteer involvement which especially concern on non-formal education. The objective of this study is to examine relationship between motivation and organizational commitment among volunteer scout as well as find the best predictor affecting organizational commitment. This study used volunteer scout organization since this organization run within non-formal education area. The research used quantitative study to analyze the data. The instrument that has been utilized to collect the data was self administered questionnaire. The data was analyzed descriptively as well as inferentially. The questionnaire was divided into several parts: demographic, Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI), and Organizational commitment (OCQ). The data collection was taken in Samarinda

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confidence: 59%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among Scout Volunteers in East Kalimantan

Rahmawati

Abiddin²,

Rois³

2014

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“…This means that students have much respect and regard for their departments and to the ideals that they uphold. Nazilah, Rozmi, and Fauziah (2012) conducted a study which evaluated whether there is an existence of a significant relationship between motivation and organizational commitment among college student volunteers. They managed to correlate organizational commitment to different subscale motives, namely understanding, altruistic, self-enhancement, self-protection, career, social, and overall motivation.…”

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The Motivational Effects of LPU Awards of Excellence: Basis for Improvement

Magsino¹,

Beredo²,

Anza³

2015

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“…Winniford, Carpenter & Girden (1995) also found the benefits derived from students' involvement in volunteering activities were important. Studies on commitment of student volunteers in sport event (Sharififar, Jamalian, Nikbakhsh, 2011) and welfare (Siti Nazilah, Rozmi, Fauziah, 2012a& 2012b also found the importance of egoistic motives. These findings support the recommendations of Phillips (1982) who stress on the importance of volunteerism in the context of Social Exchange Theory that looking at the existence of resource conversion factors from altruistic aspects (serving the others) and egoistic aspects (gaining benefits).…”

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The Role of Egoistic Motives for Malaysian College Students’ Involvement in Volunteering Activities

Nazilah¹,

Rozmi²,

Fauziah³

2014

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Egoistic motives play an important role for the involvement of college students in volunteering activities. This study extends the prior research to the Malaysian context and aims to emphasize on descriptive analysis of egoistic motives. A quantitative cross sectional survey research method was used to collect data. A self-administered questionnaire comprised of a demographic and an adaptation of Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI) was administered to samples from four public universities in Peninsular Malaysia. They were proportionately and randomly selected in the study. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. In a sample of 310, the results of the study revealed that egoistic motives in terms of career needs, self-protection and social needs were from high to very high level. The results also showed that the need to reduce the feeling of loneliness had recorded the highest mean of items. Besides, the results found that majority of the respondents acknowledged that egoistic motives were important for their involvement in volunteering activities. Meanwhile, 96 per cent of them acknowledged that the most important reason for their involvement in volunteering activities was to protect them from loneliness. The implications for theory and volunteers' managerial practices are discussed and put forward.

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Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among College Student Volunteers

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among Scout Volunteers in East Kalimantan

Relationship Between Motivation and Organizational Commitment among Scout Volunteers in East Kalimantan

The Motivational Effects of LPU Awards of Excellence: Basis for Improvement

The Role of Egoistic Motives for Malaysian College Students’ Involvement in Volunteering Activities

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