Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century

Rochester, Colin H.; Paine, Angela Ellis; Howlett, Steven; Zimmeck, Meta

doi:10.1057/9780230279438

Cited by 168 publications

(189 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

175

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…That volunteers need feedback to help ensure that they feel valued and so are retained is a theme clear in the wider literature regarding the management of volunteers (Wilson and Pimm, 1996;Rochester et al, 2010), a theme picked up by a number of participants in this study. One PSV noted 'unless managers give positive feedback they will feel not wanted and fade away' (volunteer 5).…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…It is generally acknowledged that a paid volunteer manager or coordinator is essential to facilitate the development of successful volunteer programmes within public (and other) sector organisations (Brudney, 1999;Rochester et al, 2010). The PSV programme within this constabulary was coordinated by a small team at the time that the research was conducted.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is acknowledged that volunteers should be managed and supported by the organisations that retain them and indeed for some commentators there is an obligation for organisations to do so (Rochester et al, 2010). This constabulary issues guidelines to local managers, guidelines which are similar to those provided by other constabularies (Wilkins, 2008).…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To formalise the relationship between volunteers and the organisations that deploy them risks undermining these proffered advantages. Indeed, formal processes risk altering the 'contractual' nature of the relationship between volunteers and the host organisation (Wilson and Pimm, 1996;Brudney, 1999;Wilson, 2000;Restall, 2005;Rochester et al 2010). However, managers will have to find ways to motivate volunteers to achieve certain outputs in lieu of pay and formal management processes.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Shoring up the ‘home guard’? Reflections on the development and deployment of police support volunteer programmes in England and Wales

Bullock

2015

Policing and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Whilst as a branch of the extended police family they are under-researched, volunteers have long played a role within constabularies. However, in the context of dominant political ideologies which have called for citizens to be more active in crime control and, more prosaically, pressure on police budgets at a time of state contraction, the volunteer is becoming more visible both in policing policy discourse and in practice. A novelty within Anglo-Welsh policing, this article explores the development and deployment of police support volunteer (PSV) programmes. First, it examines the nature of the roles that PSVs play and how these relate to roles played by other actors in the organisation. Second, it explores aspects of their management focusing on their coordination, training and supervision. Third, it considers the degree to which PSVs are integrated into the organisation and accepted by other actors who work therein, and discusses the reasons why the promulgation of PSVs might be resisted by salaried staff. Lastly, the article considers the implications in light of the scholarship on the pluralisation of policing focusing on the interlinked themes of effectiveness, coordination and integration and regulation and accountability

show abstract

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Shoring up the ‘home guard’? Reflections on the development and deployment of police support volunteer programmes in England and Wales

Bullock

2015

Policing and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…With the terminology "episodic volunteering" coined nearly 25 years ago by Macduff (1991) to refer to one-off volunteering assignments, which offer a flexible relationship with an organization, the concept is hardly new. The phenomenon has become increasingly popular (Grimm, Dietz, Foster-Bey, Reingold, & Nesbit, 2006;Rochester, Ellis Paine, & Howlett, 2009) as demographic trends increase, leisure choices, and work-life balance issues affect the time people can commit to volunteering (Australian Government Department 464 LOCKSTONE-BINNEY ET AL. market segments (Cravens & Piercy, 2006;Palmer & Millier, 2004), using distance measures to find distinctive cohorts that have meaningful and different relationships between important variables.…”

Section: Event Volunteer Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

et al. 2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

Brudney

Meijs

Overbeeke

2019

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.”

show abstract

Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century

Cited by 168 publications

References 0 publications

Shoring up the ‘home guard’? Reflections on the development and deployment of police support volunteer programmes in England and Wales

Shoring up the ‘home guard’? Reflections on the development and deployment of police support volunteer programmes in England and Wales

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

More is less? The volunteer stewardship framework and models

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About