Harnessing the Power of Volunteer Labor
| dc.contributor.author | Langham, Rebecca C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-18T18:01:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-09-18T18:01:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-04 | |
| dc.description | 62 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2014. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2012, about one in every four adults in the United States volunteered at least once, totaling 7.9 billion hours of volunteer service. This abundance of unpaid labor is an incredibly valuable resource that many nonprofit organizations utilize in order to operate programming and provide services, but it also dictates a need for a volunteer management program within organizations to coordinate all of the volunteer functions. The amount of people who choose to volunteer and the number of organizations who utilize this volunteer labor has made volunteerism and volunteer management a compelling research topic. Thousands of articles have been published in academic journals in a variety of disciplines. This thesis examines volunteer management by researching the findings of academia and discovering the practices nonprofit organizations use through interviews and case studies. I hypothesize that there is a disconnect between the academic and professional sphere, and found that all of the volunteer management professionals who were interviewed do not use academic research as a resource when seeking to improve their volunteer programs. I call for a better integration of the extensive knowledge to bridge the gap between the academic and professional spheres. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/18256 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon thesis, Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management, Honors College, B.A., 2014; | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nonprofit organizations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Volunteerism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nonprofit management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human resources | en_US |
| dc.subject | Labor | en_US |
| dc.subject | Volunteer motivation | en_US |
| dc.title | Harnessing the Power of Volunteer Labor | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |