The purpose of this study is to explore the ways to manage and to adjust the volunteers working in Daejeon community welfare agencies, to establish the factors affecting the volunteers' participation and rewarding elements which promote volunteering a...
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways to manage and to adjust the volunteers working in Daejeon community welfare agencies, to establish the factors affecting the volunteers' participation and rewarding elements which promote volunteering activity and the degree of satisfaction.
To do this, a questionnaire survey has been conducted targeting the sample group of 255 (20 years old or greater) volunteers working in Daejeon community welfare agencies. The collected data was analyzed with statistic methods such as frequency analysis, t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, and multiple regressing using the program of SPSS for Windows 12.0.
The summary of this study is as follows:
First, satisfaction level of groups between genders, ages, and groups which working the total period of volunteering or the period of volunteering in present agency showed no difference on the degree of satisfaction. However, there was a significant difference according to their educational background variance and employment status. In case of educational background, the volunteers who got college or higher education showed the highest satisfaction. In addition, the volunteers with occupation showed more satisfaction than the volunteers without occupation.
Second, by examining the volunteers' participatory motivation, there shown to be two distinctive characteristics, altruistic and self-centered. The relationship between the two motives with the degree of satisfaction was significantly different. In other words, the correlation of the altruistic motive and satisfaction appeared to be higher in value than the self-centered one. Analyzing the result of participatory motivation that affects the sub-satisfaction, the altruistic motivation affects the level of involvement, the provision of social responsibility, the social contact desire, the desire of satisfying others' expectation, and the desire for social approval.
Third, the rewarding factor seems to play a significant role in 6 sub-satisfations except the self-achievement need. Among the sub-satisfaction levels, the need for social exchange shows the highest expectation to the rewarding factors. This means that the self-centered motivation play the role in that relationship.
Fourth, by examining the effects of the job-relevant factors related to the sub-satisfaction factors, the job recognition level seems to play a significant role in all of the sub-satisfaction except the experience need. The appropriateness of activity has not shown to play a significant role in need of social-responsibility and social-exchange. The expectation concurrence showed a negative relationship with all sub-satisfaction. Among the job-relevant factors, the job recognization levels showed the high beta estimate, meaning that the activity-realization has relatively high effects than others.
Fifth, by analyzing the results of the effects of the participatory motivation, the reward and job-relevant factors on degree of general satisfaction, the altruistic motivation, the rewarding factor, the job recognization levels and the appropriateness of activity showed significant meaning. In 6 sub-satisfactions, the job recognization levels has the highest beta estimate and similarly, the altruistic motivation, the rewarding factor and the activity appropriateness have the similar level.
In conclusion, among all factors, the highest satisfactory factor is the job recognization levels. The altruistic motivation affects more upon the sub-satisfaction. The self-centered motivation shows to be significant in the result of the rewarding factor. The expectation concurrence does not affect the degree of satisfaction. According to the participatory motivation, the rewarding and the activity factor, the degree of sub-satisfactions has the difference in the meaning. The implication of this study shows that the community welfare agencies should assess the personal concerns and conduct proper management to the volunteers so that they can perform volunteering activity with satisfaction.