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Challenges in Volunteer Management Edited by: Matthew Liao-Troth, Western Washington University |
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In Press 2008. A volume in the series: Research in Public Management. Series Editor(s): Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to learn about public and nonprofit management, to business schools to apply the principles of private enterprise to nonprofit management, to sociology departments to study the phenomena of volunteerism, to psychology departments to understand the motives of volunteers, and economics departments to examine the value or economic worth of volunteerism. The liability of the academic approach is the segmentation of study and research into departmental areas. The study of volunteers and volunteerism needs to cross all of these organizational and discipline boundaries to be fully appreciated and understood as a field of interest. Occasionally, academics speak across disciplines (for example during meetings of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action), but most of the time we do not. Some interdisciplinary exceptions are graduate program in Public Service Management at DePaul University, the Nonprofit Management degree at the New School, and the Master of Nonprofit Organizations program at the University of San Francisco, but these are not the norm. The target audience for this volume is anyone who manages volunteers. The goal of the volume is to offer chapters that demonstrate the breadth of thought on volunteer management, both across disciplines and a wide range of settings in which volunteers work. CONTENTS: Foreword, Matthew Liao-Troth. Introduction: Challenges in Volunteer Management, Matthew Liao-Troth. SECTION I: ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES IN VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT. Management Capacity and Retention of Volunteers, Mark Hager and Jeffrey L. Brudney. No “One Best” Volunteer Management and Organizing: Two Fundamentally Different Approaches, Lucas C. P. M. Meijs and Ester M Ten Hoorn. A Typology of Short-Term and Long-Term Volunteers, Linda Hartenian. Streamlining Volunteer Management Through Information Communication, Valentina Mele. Volunteer Management in Community Currency Systems: An Examination of Time Banks, Bruce Clary. SECTION II: THE CONTEXT OF VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT. Introduction: The Context of Volunteer Management, Matthew Liao-Troth. Organizational Models for Emerging Volunteers in State Government, Sarah Hane Rehnborg and Thomas McVey. Challenges of Volunteer Management in Kazakhstan, Tamara G. Nezhina, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and Aigerim R. Ibrayeva. Volunteer Management in Polish NGOs: Challenges of Formalization, Angela L. Bies and Stephanie A. Curs. Fine Lines: Design and Implementation Challenges in Employee Volunteer Programs, Mary Tschirhart and Lyndia St. Claire. Fraternal Involvement in Volunteering: The Membership Impact of Join Hands Day, Robert Christensen and James L. Perry. Conclusion: So What? And What’s Next? Victor Murray. References. About the Authors. | ||
