Meanings of Organizational Volunteering: Diverse Volunteer Pathways
| dc.contributor.author | McAllum, Kirstie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-17T22:15:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-17T22:15:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Despite the practical need to cultivate individuals' engagement with nonprofit organizations and theoretical interest in volunteerism across multiple disciplines and perspectives, the conceptual boundaries of volunteering remain vague. Although definitions from the literature emphasize free will, lack of financial gain, and benefit to others, they do not consider how volunteers might integrate, negotiate, or reject these meanings when the demands of freedom and contribution collide. This study adopts a hybrid phenomenological perspective to explore what organizational volunteering meant to volunteers themselves. The findings show that the meanings that participants gave to volunteering were both agentic and relational and that volunteers negotiated agency and relationality in a dynamic way. The article discusses the theoretical implications for how researchers define organizational volunteering and the meaning of work in nonstandard work environments, as well as the practical implications for volunteer management. © The Author(s) 2013. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | McAllum K (2014). Meanings of Organizational Volunteering: Diverse Volunteer Pathways. Management Communication Quarterly. 28(1). 84-110. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.1177/0893318913517237 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0893-3189 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1552-6798 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10092/107562 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved unless otherwise stated | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651 | |
| dc.subject | Volunteering | |
| dc.subject | Meaning | |
| dc.subject | Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | Nonprofit organizations | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350708 - Not-for-profit business and management | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3505 - Human resources and industrial relations::350503 - Human resources management | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3505 - Human resources and industrial relations::350506 - Workforce planning | |
| dc.subject.anzsrc | 35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3505 - Human resources and industrial relations::350507 - Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life | |
| dc.title | Meanings of Organizational Volunteering: Diverse Volunteer Pathways | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uc.college | Faculty of Arts | |
| uc.department | Language, Social and Political Sciences |