Running head: COMPULSORY VOLUNTEERING
Compulsory Volunteering:
Possible Impacts on Volunteering Efficiency and Public Willingness
Annotated Bibliography
Chen Wenxin
University of Colorado Denver
Annotated Bibliography
Clary, E. G., & Snyder, M. (1999, October). The Motivations to Volunteer:
Theoretical and Practical Considerations. SAGE Journals. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8721.00037
Clary and Snyder describe volunteerism as a functional activity that different people would pose behaviors differently. In their research, they analyzed different functions of volunteerism and their impacts on the volunteers themselves, as well as the willingness to volunteer in the future.
This article provides
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Combining both of them, it is easy for me to infer that the change of people’s volunteering willingness are reluctant with age.
Holloway, S. (2015, May 12). Hot topic: Compulsory volunteering. HR Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/hot-topic-compulsory-volunteering
This article talks about the latest volunteering situation in England. The Conservative manifesto required employees of certain organizations to spend three days a year doing voluntary work. According to their interior surveys, most people believed that mandatory volunteering could be helpful for both volunteering and their daily work.
This article provides a fact that mandatory volunteering is becoming common in people’s lives. Although it does point out that people are on this policy, it should not be neglected that the number of respondents are limited, and most of them work for volunteering facilities.
Jenkins, G., Douglas, F., & Chamberlain, E. (2008). Compulsory volunteering: Using service learning to introduce occupation to occupational therapy students. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71(1),
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The investigators narrow the citizenship into two aspects: active social behaviors and the sense of agency. In conclusion, the respondents shows less passion and enthusiasm while volunteering compulsively. This, as a result, descends their active behaviors, as well as the sense of agency.
This paper shows strong indications on the relations between compulsory volunteering and participants’ attitudes, which would directly lead to alters on their citizenship. This paper certifies that faulty policy on volunteering would not only reduce the amounts of future volunteers, but also degrade their citizenship.
Yang, W. (2013, July) Preferences, social capital, and compulsory volunteering. ScienceDirect. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513001328
In this study, the instructor concentrates on the impacts the mandatory volunteering would have on students. As it turns out, the mandatory itself has no revelation with the volunteering attitude “promotion”, but the social capital does.
This study demonstrates that the result of the research is not only solid in the communication level, but also in the science level, since is based on a scientific model called OLG model, which is used to find out the variable that leads to the individual differences in the process of mandatory
When one volunteers, it is not for their personal gain, yet rather for the benefit of others. The volunteering opportunity would enable one to make a direct connection with others. Thus, the volunteers get
Volunteering is often seen as free labor. However, there is a significant cost associated with the recruitment, training, and maintenance of the volunteer force. A full-time staff to oversee the volunteer program is necessary as well to ensure volunteers are being used effectively. The recruitment process varies from advertising to speaking at schools to
Often as we grow our schedules we forget to acknowledge the fact that our name does not read “volunteer needed”. It has been said, and I sincerely repeat, that if we fail ever say no than our yes loses its value. A resounding alarm greeted an early six o'clock sunlight that signaled the end of a sleep cycle. Pulling on clothes and a quick flash of vision directed at a schedule summed up the morning other than the arrival to a National Honor Society meeting, which would be followed by a Leo club lunch meeting and trailed by a Business Professionals of America after school practice. A typical day of a Stephenson High School senior displays in this way. They are involved in many activities, both school oriented and community involved. This leaves little to no time to develop personality traits other than ones that involve servitude. While it is important to be involved in the community, overinvolvement decreases the quality of the rendered services and overwhelms the individual performing these service
volunteering is a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task. In this report i will talk about the different types of volunteering in the:
This brief will outline some of the challenges and opportunities faced as a result of an
Volunteering in America is something that has helped this country to grow the way it has. Services that were given through volunteering are a necessary part of how this country has dealt with its challenges. Beyond the wars that have made and changed the lives of Americans, this country has also had to deal with tragedy that strikes with natural
many critics of volunteerism insist that the responsibility of “the welfare of the state” lies within
Many people don’t realize the true value of volunteering, but I’ve come to understand the incredible impact of volunteering through my experience at Memorial Hermann. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” For me, his words could not be truer.
I agree with the author, If we were to be mandated to do voluntary work by the government, it would be "weakened". This would seem like a job minus the pay; helping others should not feel like a job, but should be more of a good deed. Volenteering can aslo help one to discover strenghtand weakenesses.
The people who volunteer benefits as much as those receiving the assistance do. Tells how civic engagement and volunteering is defined. Base on the article it says that civic engagement and volunteering is the same thing (Martinez 25). The examples of civil engagement is activities, skills, and experiences. Volunteering traditional has declined over the years. According to the articles most people most people ask about formal volunteering and informal activity. Informal volunteering works is an emotional well-being and physical. The definition of volunteering has become a major factor of civic engagement (Martinez 25). According to the paragraph about Wilson he defines volunteering as something that time is given to a person that benefits them freely (Martinez 26). Private domain for women are not often looked at in volunteering. It indicates a rate on whites and blacks of their volunteering over the years. Whites has the highest rate then blacks. It also refers to the lowest rates. Another paragraph refers to formal volunteering. It tells that the person who’s volunteering in something will need time and motivation (Martinez 27). Last paragraph explains the reason why older people do not volunteer and percent outside it (Martinez 27). The patient who has family members that are able to get involved into volunteering may benefit them as a therapeutic (Alespch 13). The benefits also comes with better physical function
The responsibilities include one’s respect, cooperation and participation with members and towards the community. Even children’s have the right to general need such as food, safe home, and clothing. Their guardians or parents are responsible to provide the necessary care and need for the children. However, most prominently citizenship today requires people knowing of public problems and acting together to solve the problems. Volunteering to help the community illustrates a lead participation within the community. This means taking role to join cleaning up the environment, visiting hospitals or nursing homes and share joy and love with them simply through communication. Moreover, volunteering can be intending of fighting a wrong in the community purpose for the common good. In other words, forming a group alliances and building up the strength to stand up against injustices. There are many instances throughout American history such as abolition of slavery, the women’s suffrage, civil rights movement, environment movement, public education and much more. By working together, we learn respect, honor, and responsibilities of rights. The benefit of at the most by encouraging the people in our community to participate would result in a better chance of more participation than not doing anything. Children or adults in a schools or institutes can join cleaning events, volunteering
The United States is a country of volunteers. In 2002-2003, 64 million Americans (28.8 percent of those 16 and older) donated 52 hours a year, the equivalent of more than one full work week, to building shelters, coaching Little League, caring for the elderly, teaching literacy, and countless other community-minded pursuits. Statistics show in Source F that “groups mandatory and nonvolunteers – were less likely to volunteer 8 years after high school than persons who strongly encouraged to volunteer or did it for strictly voluntary reason (43 percent).”
However for younger people, who may be interested in a career in healthcare, it can be an opportunity to gain experience to help them to make much more informed career choices. Consequently a key aspect of volunteer involvement in the NHS is
This research is being conducted to investigate volunteer motivation, satisfactions and dissatisfactions. As is stated by Becsi et al (2008), much of the literature in the social sciences focuses on predicting volunteering behaviour with underlying theories of resources availability.
Volunteerism enables students to gain the moral lesson that is vital to their life and develop their future interest. According to source 2, “community service teaches us through experience - about the relationship between empathy and responsibility, about what it takes to be part of a community, in essence, about human being”. While students are helping their community, they learn the crucial moral lessons in the most direct and impressive way. Through an actual experience of volunteering, students are reminded that it is their responsibility to serve for their community because they are a part of it. Helping without any feedback allows them to realize the power of empathy, the essential value that makes the society a