Abstract
ABSTRACT Purpose: To describe motivational factors of new volunteers of a religious foundation, based in Paraiba (Brazilian northeast), the light of the model proposed by Cavalcante (2012) for a longitudinal period of two years. Originality/value: There is no consensus on aspects related to the motivation to perform a voluntary activity, neither in context abroad nor in the Brazilian context. There are high turnover rates of these individuals, due to ease of entering and leaving this activity, without clarity in their causes. It is a longitudinal research, carried out in two opportunities: 2013 and 2015, unpublished in a national context. It attempts to lessen disagreement of voluntary motivations in the national context. NGOs managers might help to assist the maintenance of their recent volunteers. Design/methodology/approach: It is a quantitative research, carried out through a validated model in Brazil, and its factors: altruistic values, social justice, affiliation, learning, and selfish values. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variance and percentage), ANOVA (analysis of variance), T test for independent samples and correlation (bivariate). Findings: Civic bias, learning objectives, and NGO identification emerged as the main motivators. There is evidence that greater academic training has an inverse correlation with the tendency to seek the organization just to fill free time. Another finding was that volunteers with higher indices in altruistic motivations tend to act in other institutions as well, the opposite was found for those with motivations that are closer to the selfish profile.
Highlights
Being a collaborator in any organization, especially on the volunteering, according to the authors’ point-of-view in this current study, might have a strong connection with being passionate and committed with it
Concerning theoretical presuppositions by Medeiros, Fernandes & Souza’s (2006), this study aims to analyze the factors of the new volunteers’ motivations in a religious foundation in Paraiba regarding the “voluntary motivational structure model” proposed by Cavalcante (2012) for a longitudinal period for two years
This study is concerned with knowing the reasons why individuals have chosen an organization to be a volunteer and identifying those reasons which made them fall in love with it
Summary
Being a collaborator in any organization, especially on the volunteering, according to the authors’ point-of-view in this current study, might have a strong connection with being passionate and committed with it. The goal of this study intends to gather information for the volunteers’ managers in order to identify the reason for those volunteers who fall in love with; in other words, theyve chosen the institution that they intend to perform as a volunteer Identifying those feelings means the possibility to keep their passionate motivations on, and they’d pass to the connection phase, reaching fidelity. Attempting for the specific field of this study to stand out – a foundation with a religious stamp –, when it comes to the religious influence in the Brazilian territory, it is important to mention that since former occupation as colony, Brazil had been ruled by a conductive State of actions in its entire territory, especially associated to the “Catholic Church” (Koshiba & Pereira 2006) which had attempted to promote universally the practice of charity, even supported by the Brazilian government itself in many cases The former religious precepts interfered directly in the practice of the volunteering, based essentially on trade when a Christian one that donated goods or service could reach salvation. Once establishing the theme and study environment, further the theoretical framework and later the methodology, analysis of the results and conclusions
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