{"title":"Career professionals who volunteer: should their motives be accepted or managed?","authors":"S M Puffer","doi":"10.1002/nml.4130020203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Career professionals, such as business executives who devote their time and talents to committee work in voluntary organizations, are highly valued as volunteers. These professionals have a variety of motives for adding volunteer work to their demanding schedules. Should volunteer agency administrators accept and reward these motives indiscriminately, or should they try to mold them to conform to agency values? The answer, according to this study, is yes to both alternatives, depending on whether the aim is to improve these volunteers' attitudes or their performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47683,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit Management & Leadership","volume":"2 2","pages":"107-23"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nml.4130020203","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nonprofit Management & Leadership","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.4130020203","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Career professionals, such as business executives who devote their time and talents to committee work in voluntary organizations, are highly valued as volunteers. These professionals have a variety of motives for adding volunteer work to their demanding schedules. Should volunteer agency administrators accept and reward these motives indiscriminately, or should they try to mold them to conform to agency values? The answer, according to this study, is yes to both alternatives, depending on whether the aim is to improve these volunteers' attitudes or their performance.
期刊介绍:
Nonprofit Management and Leadership (NML) publishes the field''s best conceptual advances in understanding management, leadership, or governance of private nonprofit organizations. Each issue of NML offers readers the authoritative insights of top scholars on the common concerns of nonprofit managers, leaders, and boards in all private nonprofit settings, including social services, the arts, education, foundations, community development, religion, and member associations. The journal publishes full research monographs up to 10,000 words, and research notes up to 5,500 words. All research methods and approaches are welcome, so long as authors can articulate substantial advances in knowledge relevant to the field and implications for practice.