Changing the focus on volunteering: an investigation of volunteers’ multiple contributions to a charitable organization

By Steven M. Farmer, Donald B. Fedor. 2001

198 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Issues, ethics and legal aspects

1. Adam M. Grant
2. Pamala Wiepking
3. René Bekkers

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Marylène Gagné
2. E. Boezeman
3. N. Ellemers
4. Adam M. Grant
5. G. Huybrechts
6. Jurgen Willems
7. Marc Jegers
8. Roland Pepermans

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Pamala Wiepking
2. René Bekkers
3. Marylène Gagné
4. E. Boezeman
5. N. Ellemers
6. G. Huybrechts
7. Jurgen Willems
8. Marc Jegers

Citations in the corpus

• Who gives? A literature review of predictors of charitable giving. Part two: gender, marital status, income, and wealth (2012, unknown): “…et al, 1998; Banks and Tanner, 1999; Chua and Wong, 1999; Todd and Lawson, 1999; Belfield and Beney, 2000; Long, 2000; Marx, 2000; Eaton, 2001; Farmer and Fedor, 2001; Lunn et al, 2001; Tiehen, 2001; Andreoni and Miller, 2002; Brooks, 2002, 2005; Reed and Selbee, 2002; Yen, 2002;…”
• Volunteer Motivation and Satisfaction (2009, background): “In another study conducted through a nonprofit health advocacy organization, Farmer and Fedor (2001) found the reasons for joining an organization not only included altruistic motives, but financial motives as well.”
• A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “An exception is Fong (2007), showing that humanitarianism/egalitarianism is only positively related to donations to welfare recipients when the recipients appeared more worthy of support.”
• Designing volunteers’ tasks to maximize motivation, satisfaction and performance: The impact of job characteristics on volunteer engagement (2008, background): “Farmer and Fedor (2001) explained that this reliance on attendance variables is based on the assumption that, just by being there, volunteers contribute something to the organization but that in reality, contribution levels are highly uneven.”
• Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering (2012, background): “…programs as strategically valuable in attracting and recruiting qualified applicants, building skills, enhancing morale, and Participation in Corporate Volunteering 5 promoting retention of existing employees (Boccolandro, 2009; Bussell & Forbes, 2008; Farmer & Fedor, 2001; LBG Associates, 2004).”
• Intrinsic need satisfaction and the job attitudes of volunteers versus employees working in a charitable volunteer organization (2009, background): “That is, volunteer work often relies on the number of people that are willing to participate, not necessarily on their specific competence (Farmer & Fedor, 2001).”
• Volunteer decisions (not) to leave: Reasons to quit versus functional motives to stay (2012, background): “Farmer and Fedor (2001) confirm that motives to join an organization as a volunteer differ among people.”