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

Kristiansen, Elsa; Skirstad, Berit; Parent, Milena M.; Waddington, Ivan

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2014.06.002

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“…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].…”

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

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Generation Z (Gen Z), the future of America's workforce, is forecasted to represent more than 30 million persons by 2020. Volunteer rates have been declining since 2002. Most compelling is that overall lowest volunteer rates were found to be within the Gen Z segment, with expectations of continued decline. Thus, this study explored motivations associated with sustainable volunteering by Gen Z based upon past research that documented intent to volunteer is strongly associated with age. In doing so, the Volunteer Functions Inventory was adopted to identify Gen Z motivations for volunteering. This study then employed the theory of planned behavior to test the relationships between Gen Z volunteering motivations, their attitudes and job performance using data obtained from 306 Gen Z volunteer special event participants. Among five motives identified to be important to Gen Z, only four motives ("value", "career", "learning" and "self-esteem") were found to significantly influence their attitudes. The 'social' motive was found to have no significant effect on their attitudes towards volunteering. This research framework was supported by validating the significant relationships between volunteer motivations, attitudes and job performance specific to the Gen Z volunteer segment. "Job training appropriateness" was found to be an important moderator for improving the relationships between Gen Z volunteer attitudes and job performance.

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

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“…∘ A flexible organizational structure (Parent, Rouillard, and Leopkey 2011); ∘ A VTeam management system (Parent 2008); ∘ The use of volunteers throughout -though especially during Games time with an understanding of their equally (if not more) important role than paid staff (see Kristiansen et al 2015;Lockstone and Baum 2009;Solberg 2003); • Knowledge: A knowledge management system to gather and disseminate information, learning and experiences (see Halbwirth and Toohey 2001;Parent, MacDonald, and Goulet 2014); and • Innovation: A willingness to innovate not only for Games-time processes (e.g. technology), but more importantly for behind-the-scenes management processes (e.g.…”

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The governance of the Olympic Games in Canada

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“…Studies are mostly focused on motivation, experiences, and satisfaction of volunteers and management of volunteers in various types of events-e.g., cultural and art festivals; religious festivals; special events-but most dominate studies focused on sport events [31,[40][41][42][43][44]. Although such research focus is narrowly specified, increasing interest of the distinct fields of study in events, event tourism and volunteering, make a good environment for future research.…”

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Volunteer Tourism as a Sustainable Form of Tourism—The Case of Organized Events

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This paper focuses on volunteer tourism as a sustainable form of tourism relating to the volunteer service at a tourism destination and specific tourism activities. The aim of the paper is to explore volunteer tourism in Slovakia with examples of organized events, especially to search exactly how event's organizers support the development of domestic and inbound volunteer tourism in Slovakia. This paper is based on a sociological survey. We addressed 653 heterogeneous event's organizers in Slovakia. 18% of them participated in the questionnaire survey. The collected data were processed by selected mathematical and statistical methods in SPSS statistics program. As such, we found most events organizers team up with volunteers. Only half of the organizers cooperate with local volunteers, while the second half also support the development of volunteer tourism engaging in voluntourism. In the case of attractive events, the engagement of voluntourists could be more effective. The current situation has resulted from missing information about the management of volunteers but it could be improved through an e-manual for event organizers providing an outline guide for volunteer management.

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

Abstract: This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Kristiansen, E., Skirstad, B., Parent, M., Waddington, I. (2014). '

Cited by 53 publications

References 34 publications

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

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

The governance of the Olympic Games in Canada

Volunteer Tourism as a Sustainable Form of Tourism—The Case of Organized Events

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