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What drives employees to participate in corporate volunteering programs
Srinivasan Sekar,Lata Dyaram +1 more
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In this article, the authors examined how some of the key aspects of employee motivation and their perception of volunteering programs impact their participation in corporate volunteering and found that employee's self-oriented motivations to significantly influence employee participation than other-oriented motives.Abstract:
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how some of the key aspects of employee motivation and their perception of volunteering programs impact their participation in corporate volunteering. Specifically, this study argues that employee’s self-oriented motives to significantly influence employee participation than other-oriented motives. Similarly, this study also hypothesized that the corporate volunteering program characteristics to significantly relate to employee participation in corporate volunteering.
Design/methodology/approach
The data were collected from 461 employee volunteers representing various industries across four different locations in India. A self-reported method was used to collect the data by administering the questionnaires.
Findings
The structural equation modeling results indicate that other-oriented motives (altruistic) and characteristics of corporate volunteering programs to significantly predict employee participation in corporate volunteering and self-oriented motives did not show significance in predicting employee participation.
Research limitations/implications
Results suggest that employee participation in volunteering is a function of not merely employee motivation but also how the volunteering programs are conceptualized and implemented.
Originality/value
This research study moves beyond mere role of employee motives analysis and considered the role of characteristics of corporate volunteering programs to impact employee volunteering behavior. Further, it highlights there is a differential impact of self- and other-oriented motives in predicting employee participation.read more
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Employees’ perceived benefits from participating in CSR activities and implications for increasing employees engagement in CSR
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined what kinds of benefits employees perceive from participating in CSR, to identify varying levels of participation and to discuss the reciprocal relationship between the perception of benefits and participation.
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Toward a Deep Insight into Employee Participation in Employer-Supported Volunteering in Iranian Organizations: A Grounded Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the antecedents and consequences of employer-supported volunteering (ESV) have been widely studied in non-western countries and few studies have attempted to succinctly assess this phenomenon in nonwestern countries.
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Volunteer responsibilities, motivations and challenges in implementation of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) initiative in Ghana: qualitative evidence from two systems learning districts of the CHPS+ project
Margaret Kweku,Emmanuel Manu,Hubert Amu,Fortress Yayra Aku,Martin Adjuik,Elvis Enowbeyang Tarkang,Joyce Komesuor,Geoffery Adebayor Asalu,Norbert Amuna,Laud Ampomah Boateng,Justine Sefakor Alornyo,Roland Glover,Ayaga A. Bawah,Timothy Letsa,John Koku Awoonor-Williams,James F. Phillips,John O. Gyapong +16 more
TL;DR: Community health volunteerism needs to be prioritised by the Ghana Health Service and other health sector stakeholders to make it attractive for members to give off their best in the discharge of their responsibilities.
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Transcendence at workplace scale: development and validation
Chitra Khari,Shuchi Sinha +1 more
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Unpack the relational and behavioral outcomes of internal CSR: Highlighting dialogic communication and managerial facilitation
Baobao Song,Weiting Tao +1 more
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