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Enhancing volunteer engagement to achieve desirable outcomes: what can non-profit employers do?
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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:59 authored by Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz, Catherine BaileyAbstract Engagement is a positive psychological state that is linked with a range of beneficial individual and organizational outcomes. However, the factors associated with volunteer engagement have rarely been examined. Data from 1064 volunteers of a wildlife charity in the United Kingdom revealed that both task- and emotion-oriented organizational support were positively related to volunteer engagement, and volunteer engagement was positively related to volunteer happiness and perceived social worth and negatively related to intent to leave the voluntary organization. Consistent with theory, engagement acted as a mediator between these factors. The implications for future research and the relevance of the findings for voluntary organizations are discussed.
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Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit OrganizationsISSN
0957-8765Publisher
KluwerExternal DOI
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2Volume
27Page range
595-617Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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2015-06-12First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-06-12First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-04-26Usage metrics
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