A Functional Approach to Volunteerism: Do Volunteer Motives Predict Task Preference?

By B. Houle, Brad J. Sagarin, M. Kaplan. 2005

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Volunteer decisions (not) to leave: Reasons to quit versus functional motives to stay (2012, background): “Our research question is whether reasons to quit volunteering are symmetric to the motives to volunteer – often an inherent assumption made in literature on volunteer motives (Clary and Snyder, 1999; Clary et al., 1996, 1998; Houle et al., 2005; Wilson, 2000) – or whether to stay or to quit in a par”
Analyzing Morton's Typology of Service Paradigms and Integrity. (2006, background): “Furthermore, research (Clary, et al., 1994; Clary et al., 1998; Houle et al., 2005) has found that satisfaction and persistence are greater when service activities match the volunteer’s motive.”
Voluntary Engagement in an Open Web-Based Encyclopedia: Wikipedians and Why They Do It (2009, background): “The two remaining components of the Klandermans Model, norm-oriented motives and collective motives, are important factors in social movements (eg, Simon et al, 2003; Wilson, 1995 ) and volunteering (eg, Houle, Sagarin, & Kaplan, 2005 ).”
A Person-Environment Fit Approach to Volunteerism: Volunteer Personality Fit and Culture Fit as Predictors of Affective Outcomes (2008, background): “Young student volunteers view their volunteer work as a learning experience (Gidron, 1978 ) or as a stepping stone to a paid job (Beale, 1984 ), whereas other individuals may perform voluntary tasks because of normative or social pressures (eg, Houle, Sagarin, & Kaplan, 2005 ).”
Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering (2012, background): “For example, Houle et al. (2005) presented a list of eight different volunteering tasks ranging from typing and data entry to reading and designing brochures, seeking to identify volunteering motives that predicted interest in each task without specifying the underlying characteristics of the tasks.”