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- Provides a comprehensive view of volunteer work by combining motivational with organizational and social issues
- Presents volunteer work as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being
- Offers concrete advice on the design of volunteer work
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland
Stefan T. Güntert
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Theo Wehner
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Harald A. Mieg
About the authors
Stefan T. Güntert is a lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the University of Applied Sciences
and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2008. His research
interests 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
Book Subtitle: The European View
Authors: Stefan T. Güntert, Theo Wehner, Harald A. Mieg
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92817-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92819-3Published: 01 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92817-9Published: 31 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 65
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Positive Psychology, Sociology of Work, Social Work, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Quality of Life Research