Why Youths Choose to Become Volunteers: From the Perspective of Belief

Shah, Jasmin Arif; Suandi, Turiman; Hamzah, Siti Raba’ah; Ismail, Ismi Arif

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“…Research Background: Butt, Hou, Soomro and Maran (2017), in their research state that a large number of volunteers are needed all over the world to render quality service for the betterment of the societies, organizations and communities. Volunteers can help to ensure the relevancy and legitimacy of developmentrelated advocacy activities in important knowledge repositories (Suandi, Hamzah, Ismail & Shah, 2014). Bang and Chelladurai (2009) state that understanding the motivation, recruitment and retention of volunteers is important as volunteers contribute significantly to organizations.…”

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A Conceptual Framework to Study Factors Influencing Volunteers’ Motivation

Hizazi,

Kamarul Zaman,

Gonulal

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Many researchers agree that motivation plays a key role for people to volunteer. This is because volunteering sometimes offers them no money or recognition. Understanding volunteer motivations and variances between groups of people will enable management to build management methods that will help volunteers perform better. Little study has been conducted on the volunteer motivational factors due to crisis although there were many studies on other forms of factors related to volunteerism. By understanding volunteer motivation, volunteers can be better managed to ensure that the benefits of helping outweigh the potential negative consequences for individuals and the community as a whole. The Malaysian Ministry of Youth and Sports was selected because although the initiative has just been launched recently but the Ministry able to attract more than 200,000 volunteers. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence people to volunteer as trained Satria. This will help government and non-profit organizations understand the factors that influence people to motivate during crises and emergencies as well as less-emergencies situations. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the factors influencing volunteers’ motivation from a population of 508 trained Satria volunteers of the Malaysian Ministry of Youth and Sports throughout Malaysia.

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“…There are six motivation types namely, values, understanding and career. Social needs, enhancement, sense of security accordingly and each type has its elaborative functions (Suandi, et al, 2014).…”

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Gonulal

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“…These elements are aligned with the study carried out by Butt et al (2017) in which it is mentioned that alignment with the cause and personal beliefs are fundamental elements for companies to engage in volunteer activities. Moreover, and as the startups are essentially made up of young and high qualified professionals, this element has also been a catalyst for the rapid growth of this movement, since as Shah et al (2015) point out, young people are strongly committed and willing to participate in solidarity initiatives.…”

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Social movements in a time of pandemic: The case of Tech4Covid19 in Portugal

Almeida

2021

EPSIR

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The COVID-19 pandemic had a strong impact on Portuguese society and raised the need for new technological projects to help frontline professionals in the fight against coronavirus and its effects on the local population and economic agents. It is in this context that the Tech4Covid19 movement was founded by Portuguese technological startups. This initiative brings together more than 5000 volunteers and offers technological solutions in the areas of health, education, and local economy. This study aims to understand and explore the organizational model and dynamics of Tech4Covid19 through the adoption of qualitative methods based on primary and secondary sources that have allowed the movement to be explored from multiple perspectives. The findings reveal that Tech4Covid internally promotes the development of its own projects, but also accepts projects proposed by external entities that are aligned with the principles and values of the movement. The organization of the movement is supported by autonomous self-managed teams regarding each project, and there is a coordination group responsible for the aggregate management of the various initiatives and for establishing communication with partners, the media, and social networks.

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“…Recently, the International Labour Organisation and Johns Hopkins University defined volunteerism as "unpaid non-compulsory work; that is, time individuals give without pay to activities performed either through an organization or directly for others outside their own household" (CIVICUS, 2011). Shah et al (2014) identifies two types of volunteerism; informal and formal volunteerism. Formal volunteering is done through a group or an organization.…”

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The contribution of volunteerism to monitoring and evaluation of NGO projects in Chegutu district, Zimbabwe

Kabonga

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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The study discusses the contribution of volunteerism to monitoring and evaluation (M and E) of NGO projects using the case study of a NGO in Chegutu district, Zimbabwe. While there is significant body of literature on contribution of volunteerism to social development in Zimbabwe and elsewhere, there is no literature that specifically discuss the nexus between formal volunteerism and monitoring and evaluation. The study was limited to formal volunteerism organised in Non-Governmental Organisation. It emerged that volunteers perform several M and E roles that include data collection, reporting, feedback of project success, peer to peer mentoring and beneficiary verification. These roles are embedded in the broader project functions. While performing these roles several challenges affects the outcomes of M and E roles. Low literacy levels affect effective performance of M and E roles. Similarly, desire to sustain households' livelihoods conflict with performance of M and E roles resulting in little commitment by some of the volunteers. Data in the study were collected from volunteers and NGOs officials. Data were collected using in-depth interview. The findings are presented and discussed thematically. Itai Kabonga ABOUT THE AUTHOR Itai Kabonga holds academic qualifications in Development Studies, Sociology, Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (M and E). He has also taught several courses in Development Studies that include Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society in Africa, Gender Studies and International Development Corporations at Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) and ARUPPE Jesuit University in Zimbabwe. Itai's research interests include NGOs and development, Civil society-state relations, volunteerism in Africa, Zimbabwe's development crisis since 1980.

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Why Youths Choose to Become Volunteers: From the Perspective of Belief

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

A Conceptual Framework to Study Factors Influencing Volunteers’ Motivation

A Conceptual Framework to Study Factors Influencing Volunteers’ Motivation

Social movements in a time of pandemic: The case of Tech4Covid19 in Portugal

The contribution of volunteerism to monitoring and evaluation of NGO projects in Chegutu district, Zimbabwe

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