Reconsidering the Role of Training in Event Volunteers’ Satisfaction

Generation Z’s Sustainable Volunteering: Motivations, Attitudes and Job Performance

“…As the volunteering research focus has evolved into a broader context of areas including events, subsequent academic findings have identified different motives for volunteering [20]. In particular, Costa et al (2006) found that individuals participated in event volunteering because of opportunities for training and task execution [21]. Consequently, event volunteering is considered as an arena for personal expression, development and cautious investment in one's human and social capital [22].…”

‘We can do it’: Community, resistance, social solidarity, and long-term volunteering at a sport event

“…In addition to research on individuals' motivations, researchers have also examined 'successful' volunteer management programs and the management of relationships between paid staff and volunteers (e.g., Chanavat & Ferrand, 2010;Costa, Chalip, Green, & Simes, 2006;Parent & Slack, 2007). These individual and organizational approaches -even allowing for definitional looseness -may be useful in helping us to understand why some people volunteer while others do not and, similarly, why some people who volunteer will continue to do so while others will find volunteering less rewarding and may not volunteer again (see also Parent & Smith-Swan, 2013).…”

Are All My Volunteers Here to Help Out? Clustering Event Volunteers by Their Motivations

“…These studies include comparing the motivations of event volunteers with their sociodemographic profiles (Kemp, 2002;Pauline & Pauline, 2009), the roles they undertake (Saleh & Wood, 1998), whether someone is a first time or repeat volunteer (Coyne & Coyne, 2001;Wollebaek, Skirstad, & Hanstad, 2014), and the training they receive (Costa, Chalip, Green, & Simes, 2006). Given the dependence of events on volunteers, a number of studies have also sought to identify whether volunteer motivation can predict volunteer retention (Coyne & Coyne, 2001;Cuskelly et al, 2004;MacLean & Hamm, 2007).…”