Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering
This article considers the balance between promoting volunteering in sport by emphasising the personal rewards to prospective volunteers themselves – the dominant management approach – and promoting it by the long-term development of the values of volunteering. We review the motivations and rewar...
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| author | Nichols, G. Hogg, E. Knight, Caroline Storr, R. |
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| description | This article considers the balance between promoting volunteering in sport by emphasising the
personal rewards to prospective volunteers themselves – the dominant management approach
– and promoting it by the long-term development of the values of volunteering. We review the
motivations and rewards of sports volunteers and how these can be used to promote volunteering
as being a transaction between the volunteer and the organisation. This is contrasted with a
lifecourse approach to understanding volunteering, and evidence that an understanding of the
value of volunteering can be inculcated that underpins continued volunteering. The two approaches
regard potential volunteers respectively as ‘consumers’ and as ‘citizens’. We suggest that a shift
to treating volunteers as consumers can lead to volunteering being regarded as transactional. The
discussion has implications for volunteering in general – in particular, how it can be promoted
in a society where narratives of ‘the consumer’ increasingly dominate over those of ‘the citizen’. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-755052024-05-21T03:35:43Z Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering Nichols, G. Hogg, E. Knight, Caroline Storr, R. volunteering Sport Social capital Participation This article considers the balance between promoting volunteering in sport by emphasising the personal rewards to prospective volunteers themselves – the dominant management approach – and promoting it by the long-term development of the values of volunteering. We review the motivations and rewards of sports volunteers and how these can be used to promote volunteering as being a transaction between the volunteer and the organisation. This is contrasted with a lifecourse approach to understanding volunteering, and evidence that an understanding of the value of volunteering can be inculcated that underpins continued volunteering. The two approaches regard potential volunteers respectively as ‘consumers’ and as ‘citizens’. We suggest that a shift to treating volunteers as consumers can lead to volunteering being regarded as transactional. The discussion has implications for volunteering in general – in particular, how it can be promoted in a society where narratives of ‘the consumer’ increasingly dominate over those of ‘the citizen’. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75505 10.1332/204080519X15478200125132 English The Policy Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | volunteering Sport Social capital Participation Nichols, G. Hogg, E. Knight, Caroline Storr, R. Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title | Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title_full | Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title_fullStr | Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title_short | Selling volunteering or developing volunteers? Approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| title_sort | selling volunteering or developing volunteers? approaches to promoting sports volunteering |
| topic | volunteering Sport Social capital Participation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75505 |