Digital E: Managing Voluntourism

Kumaran, Muthusami; Pappas, Joanna

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“…Solutions include better preparation in the home country (Seymour, Benzian, & Kalenderian, ) or in greater guidance of on‐site volunteering. Although these aspects present issues for volunteer management, limited research combines both volunteer managers into the same process (see Kumaran & Pappas, ).…”

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More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

Brudney

Meijs

Overbeeke

2019

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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Scholars have devoted substantial attention to developing conditional models of volunteer administration and management, but no consensus surrounds the criteria underlying the different models or the rationale. The literature reveals a welter of possibilities but no clear choice. This study conceives the primary managerial challenges as securing access to and guiding volunteer energy into productive volunteering, and the volunteer administrator as the central actor in this process. Based on how volunteers are accessed and guided in their roles, we develop the Volunteer Stewardship Framework, which distinguishes volunteer administration according to two key dimensions: organizational access to volunteer energy (private resource vs. common pool) and guidance of volunteers (unitary vs. shared). Results of a survey of volunteer administration practitioners in the Netherlands show that respondents working under the four models emanating from the Framework recognize different elements of volunteer administration as “Very Important.”

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Section: Volunteer Management Models and Practicesmentioning

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More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

Brudney

Meijs

Overbeeke

2019

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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“…This connects with another avenue of study into "diaspora philanthropy" in which immigrants provide support through remittances and other contributions to people and organizations in their country of origin (Schmid and Nissim 2016). Also, globalization and rising global travel fostered the activity of "voluntourism" (e.g., Kumaran and Pappas 2012). Finally, another contemporary approach within meso-level studies is to investigate the role of digitalization.…”

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“…Plus, Richard Fox-Professor and Chair in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada-studied religiosity among the Balinese and its connection to generosity through offerings during services (Fox 2015). Alongside Muthusami Kumaran-Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management and Community Organizations at the University of Florida Gainesville-who studied voluntourism generally (Kumaran and Pappas 2012), Brooke Schedneck-Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Rhodes College-studied tourism in Asia, especially in Thailand and investigated the role of Buddhism in engagement in voluntourism (Schedneck 2015(Schedneck , 2017a(Schedneck , 2017b(Schedneck , 2018a(Schedneck , 2018b(Schedneck , 2019a(Schedneck , 2019b. Also, Min-Young Lee-Associate Professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the Cyber University of Korea-and YoonJoo (Sam) Jang of the Beautiful Foundation-identified several references of research on giving in Korea that The Beautiful Foundation conducted.…”

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Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions

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This paper provides a meta-analysis of the intersection of (a) religiosity and spirituality with (b) generosity, philanthropy, nonprofits, and prosociality. The study is informed by three informational sources, chronologically: (1) informational interviews with scholars and practitioners based within and studying regions outside of the U.S. and Western Europe; (2) discovery search of purposefully selected extant publications, especially focusing on the last decade of contemporary scholarship; and (3) systematic search of relevant peer-reviewed publication outlets since 2010. Reviewed publications are categorized by level of analysis into macro, meso, and micro approaches. Across each level and source, publications are also geo-tagged for their geographic scope. Particular attention is paid to the under-studied world regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The results reveal that Asia is the most studied and Latin America the least studied, and that meso-level approaches are the most common while micro-level are the least common. Additionally, a map of publication counts reveals within-region inequalities by country. Implications of the analysis are drawn for future studies, particularly ways to advance this interdisciplinary field.

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“…Usually, the volunteer tourist pays for the costs of his / her own travel and for stay in the destination, and often the costs of organizing a volunteer project in which he or she participates. In contrast to the volunteers who participate in the volunteer projects in their local communities, volunteer tourists work in places that are far from their homes, working in an unfamiliar environment that includes new people, unknown or lesser known cultures, different traditions and different living conditions (Kumaran & Pappas, 2012). To one's work could be considered as volunteering, it is necessary to be fulfilled three basic parts of volunteer tourism:…”

Section: The Meaning Of Volunteer Tourismmentioning

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“…The cooperation of the for-profit and non-profit sector in the development and implementation of quality volunteer projects creates " volunteer tourists partnerships" among all involved stakeholders, such as: volunteers, organizations that organize volunteer trips, travel agencies, online brokers and tour operators who will take over the promotion and distribution of volunteer products, aviation companies that could provide discounts for this type of travel, local non-governmental organizations that implement volunteer programs in the local community, but also the users of the volunteers program (Kumaran & Pappas, 2012). The business sector has recognized the benefits of collaborating with nonprofits organizations that impact on increasing their productivity, the quality of employment and to maintain positive public image.…”

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Volunteer Tourism as Tourist Trend

Mađarac¹,

Nedović²

2019

LIMEN - International Scientific-Business Conference - Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics: Integrated Politics Of

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Modern tourists on their vacations seek for an experiences and activities and one of the possible solutions for active vacation is offered in the form of volunteer tourism. Volunteer tourism is a tourist trend (volunteer plus tourism) that provides humanitarian work and the contribution of tourists to the local community during the holiday season. Through volunteering tourist is directly acquainted with the destination, its culture, problems and local customs and for the tourists through their humanitarian work is provided a sense of value. Volunteer activities can be carried out in the fields of ecology, agriculture, orphanages, animal care, heritage rebuilding, education, etc. In addition to the positive side, the negative side of volunteer tourism has also been criticized. The main argument for this is the attitude that this tourist product implies underdevelopment and poverty as a "tourist attractions". For the purpose of this study, a group interview was carried out that includes the students to determine if they were familiar with the concept of voluntarism, whether they would go on this kind of tourist vacation and also what is their opinion on voluntarism.

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Digital E: Managing Voluntourism

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

Religiosity and Generosity: Multi-Level Approaches to Studying the Religiousness of Prosocial Actions

Volunteer Tourism as Tourist Trend

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