Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering: The European View

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Stefan T. Güntert Theo Wehner

Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering

The European View

Stefan T. Güntert, Theo Wehner, Harald A. Mieg

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
01 April 2022

Social issues & processes; Sociology: work & labour; Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy; Humanistic psychology; Occupational & industrial psychology

Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology

This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. The book is based on the authors' 15 years of research into volunteer work in Europe. It provides clear instructions on designing volunteer work tasks, and on where boundaries must be respected. The findings include insights into cultural and national differences, and offer practical advice on the organization of volunteer work. This book answers questions like: How do we understand voluntary work? How essential is it that this kind of work remains unpaid and carried out by so-called laypersons with special motives? And what follows from this for the interaction between voluntary work and professionalized, paid employment? The analysis draws on perspectives from wellbeing research, organizational and industrial studies, social work, and related social sciences.

By: Stefan T. Güntert, Theo Wehner, Harald A. Mieg
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2022
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9783030928193
ISBN 10: 3030928195
Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
Pages: 65
Publication Date: 01 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Definition of volunteer work and a model of volunteer activity.- Chapter 2: Volunteer work as a matter of motivation.- Chapter 3: Volunteer work as an organizational task.- Chapter 4: Volunteering as a psychosocial resource.- Chapter 5: Volunteer work from an international perspective.- Chapter 6: Practical Implications.

Theo Wehner held the professorship of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and was head of the Center for Organizational and Work Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich from 1997 to 2015. He spent 15 years researching in the field of volunteer work in Switzerland, Germany, and with Europe-wide studies. These studies on volunteer work included well over 15,000 individuals and achieved response rates of up to 70%, which are rarely achieved in comparable questionnaire studies. The respondents generated data that are still very rare in volunteer research. Since his retirement in 2015, Theo Wehner has advised charitable institutions and politics on volunteer work. Stefan T. Güntert is a lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the University of Applied Sciencesand Arts Northwestern Switzerland. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2008. His researchinterests include work design, work motivation, volunteering, nonprofit management, and self-determination theory. Harald A. Mieg is the President of the Society for Science Studies, Berlin. He is affiliated with the Humboldt University, Berlin as a Guest Professor. He was earlier at ETH Zurich, where he conducted research into the professionalization of environmental expert services in Switzerland.