Managing Staff Versus Volunteer Staff

In an article written by Susan Ellis she write the two reasons why the employees are resistant to the volunteers “First, whether conscious or not, too many staff have low expectations of the skills or qualifications of potential volunteers, and so design work posing minimal risk if not done properly. Second, volunteer projects are most often carved out of the daily (or periodic) activities of the paid staff, defining volunteers as “assistants” focused on the same goals and strategies as the employees” (Ellis). Both of the claims are flawed since they both lead to conflictions on both parties. The staff don’t want the volunteers to do all the little tasks because they seem to think that the volunteers will do it with a careless fashion. This is all connected because the work the volunteers do is somehow connected to the employees

According, to Zekman, (2014) resident’s needs at Sunrise Assisted Living were not because they were not performing their tasks adequately. The functional manager failed to evaluate the performance of employees, and checking on the residence’s to see if they are getting the proper services they need. The functional manager and the employees breech their duties; they should be working as a team to provide all the help the residents require because they are paying for it. Based on research, general and functional managers are responsible to imply their knowledge, energy, and enthusiasm in an organization. They are in a position where they have to provide strategic leadership to their subordinates and develop a high-performing company Hill, Jones, and Schilling (2015).

I learned many things from my experience while volunteering at the Fox Valley Humane Association. One of those is how much my time really does matter. While completing tasks like laundry, dishes, greeter, and collecting donations out at the mall I realized how much one person can contribute. By helping out with these tasks I prevented the staff from doing it. If volunteers weren’t present someone would still need to do the work which would have been taking away from staff duties. The staff has other duties to tend to such as tending sick animals, preforming spaying and neutering, declawing, and working at the desk. These are important to the animal’s health and if the staff were always busy completing tasks volunteers do there wouldn’t be time to tend

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

Organizations that hire employees or volunteers are accountable for their actions and must make sure, as best they can, that the people representing them can be trusted with their clients. Employers should be well-informed on the risk of failing to conduct screening checks of potential volunteers or employees, as they may be held legally and morally accountable through vicarious liability. Vicarious liability makes an organization accountable for the behavior of volunteers or employees under certain circumstances. It functions on the supposition the organization has aggravated the risk that harm would take place. It makes sure that organizations take all rational measures to decrease the risk of harm by using methods such as screening. "If they fail to take reasonable measures to reduce the risk of harm to their clients, an organization (such as a school,

A manager should make sure that the resources that are provided to the staff are useful, effective, and helpful. The manager should ensure that they have the adequate amount of resources and tools in order to complete there work and job. When it comes to the issue of nurse staffing ratios, the manager has the responsibility of making sure that the unit is staffed to meet the demands of the patients and there level of care, or acuity (GCU, 2011). Utilizing there skills in leadership, quality care, people and communication can all be of benefit. Leadership skills, such as leading by example, are necessary for nurse managers. Quality care skills can be beneficial to gather the necessary data and provide adequate staffing to promote and improve overall performance. People skills are used to interview new employees and hopefully increase staffing

Then, she can create a position for a volunteer. Not all volunteer positions would work. Sometimes she has to work with volunteers and staffs to figure out the problems and make any adjustment as needed. When I ask Helen about how she motivates volunteers, she mentioned that volunteers have their own motivation to do the volunteer work. The way she gets volunteers to be more engaged is keeping in touch with volunteers, ensuring that supervisors engage with volunteers, recognizing volunteers and having events to show her appreciation to volunteers. She also provides support to volunteer to help them find a right job or make any changes to ensure that they feel comfortable to do their

In a Health and social care setting it involves working with people with lots of different variety of needs, hopes, wishes and backgrounds. Within the setting we have an organisation that is call ‘Duty of Care’ towards the people that cannot look after them self’s. This means that it is the careers responsibility to keep the individual (service users) safe from any harm, Abuse and injury they may cause to them self’s or others within that setting. ‘Duty of Care’ doesn’t only apply to care workers only it also applies to people that are on the premises have the same responsibility as the care workers. Even if you are not directly responsible for the care of a service users, you will still have owe them a duty of care.

The use of volunteers like parents or community members can help relieve some responsibilities that are on many teachers or administrators plates. This can allow teachers and administrators to focus on student learning.

Therefore, if I were a leader of an interprofessional healthcare team, I would decide to choose volunteers that were dedicated to this improvement project. After two weeks on the job, if I noticed my volunteers started to make excuses for not having completed their assigned tasks and failing to return my

Volunteers are not employees. Volunteers serve organizations by contributing time, energies or talents that help to fulfil the organizations' mission. They are not paid a wage for their contribution, however some employers may pay travel and lunch expenses.

Employees and volunteers are the people that would want to assist the Red Cross by providing a service to help victims. They would both be concerned for the success of the business as the employees would want to be getting paid well and the volunteers would want to get an experience of helping people out. The difference between the employees and volunteers is that the employees would be getting paid for working for the Red Cross on the other hand; the volunteers would also be working for the Red Cross

This paper examines the literature addressing the underlying factors in long term commitment of volunteers to community service organisations. It places the reasons given by volunteers for both joining and staying, into the context of motivation theory. It is motivation theory that provides a foundation for understanding what attracts volunteers to community service, what factors encourage them to stay long term and what causes them to leave. The paper concludes that when those factors are interpreted from the perspective of motivation theory, managers of

The overload of the jobs and tasks that is the extra work required to accomplish by the existing volunteers raise the probability of burning out of the volunteers due to longer working hours in order to fulfill the responsibilities of certain roles. This long working hours and handling multiple tasks simultaneously simply results in

My name is Chao and I come from China. I wanted to take this course to improve my leadership abilities. I have spent time in a variety of managerial roles, often as a volunteer myself, and now I find myself leading volunteers. In China, we have a communal ethic, where the entire community and population pulls together to make sure that projects are a success. We have put together basketball and volleyball teams and tournaments with our school, and at the neighbourhood level organized exercises, dances and performances in the courtyard area of our neighbourhood. I found that not only was this something that I was good at, but that I enjoyed. So what I wanted to accomplish here in this course was to improve my skills so that I could do more to help the sporting projects that I am involved with.