We can find new possibilities in the donation activities of individual donors for religious broadcasts which function as an important pillar of civil resources. However, there has rarely been any positive research into such questions to date. This stu...
We can find new possibilities in the donation activities of individual donors for religious broadcasts which function as an important pillar of civil resources. However, there has rarely been any positive research into such questions to date. This study is meaningful in developing the latent factors in donors, centering on individual donors for religious broadcasts, and in heightening the donation effect by continuously strengthening the motivation of individual donors and also in providing the foundation for consequent research. For those purposes, the motivations of donation are divided into two parts of donor elements and donating organization elements, and through a positive analysis of determining factors that influence continual donation motivation of the donors, the characteristics of each factor is examined, and the result is as follows:
First, for the donor elements, meaningful and positive influences are only made on immersion for the case of donation effect, trust for the case of selfish motivation, and satisfaction for the altruistic motivation.
Second, the communication quality turned out to influence on immersion and satisfaction with meaningful and positive (+) impacts as preceding factors to relationship quality, and the organizational performance turned out to influence with meaningful and positive impacts on trust and satisfaction only.
Third, it is ascertained that there is a positive influential relation of trust -> immersion -> satisfaction in constituent of relationship quality between donors and donating organizations, and all the constituents of relationship quality turned out to be influencing donation motivation with meaningful and positive impacts.
Fourth, it was found that meaningful and positive impacts are made on donation motivation in donation effect and self-respect among donor elements, and in communication quality among donating organization elements.
Fifth, among the characteristics factors in donors, gender showed selfish motivation whereas academic ability showed self-respect, donation effect and selfish motivation, income showed donation effect, occupation showed self-respect together with selfish motivation, and the period of religious life and donation amount showed statistical meaningfulness in self-respect and altruistic motivation.
It is ascertained that the relation between maturity in faith and donation factor is weak and on the basis of the result, the following theoretical suggestions are made:
First, as in the research related to existing relationship quality, trust, immersion and satisfaction as relationship quality factors are proved to be useful in explaining donation behaviors.
Second, it is verified in this study that the donation motivation can be divided into internal and external motivations through analysis of exploratory and confirming factors. In order to improve the relationship quality, the altruistic motivation in particular plays a comparatively important role.
Third, the relations between trust, immersion and satisfaction of relationship quality were verified to show the same result as in many previous researches including those of Ramesey and Sohi (1997), that is, trust → immersion → satisfaction.
Fourth, the path coefficient of trust between donation intention and relationship quality was .833, that of immersion was .648, which shows that trust of donors towards the donating organization had closer relations with donation intention than immersion.
Centering on such suggestions from the marketing point of view, operational points that could be used as fundamental reference for donation strategies are suggested as follows:
First, donating organizations need to find ways to strengthen existing donors’ donation intention and to improve trust of donors in order to induce to motivate continuous donations.
Second, in order to build trust with donors, the donating organizations need to enhance the organizational achievement, and in order to heighten immersion level of donors for donating organizations and improvement in communication with donors is comparatively important.
Third, as trust and immersion factors are important in constructing long-term relations with the donors in continual donation intention, it would be necessary to build a donation environment continuously where the donors can trust and get immersed towards the donating organizations.
Fourth, satisfaction factor among relationship quality factors turned out to have meaningful influence on donation intention, and this suggests that it is necessary to take a strategic approach for long-term development where trust and immersion are juxtaposed rather than short-term activities for donation behavior.
Fifth, it is ascertained that donation intention is directly influenced by donation effect, self-respect and quality of communication. This suggests that whereas the construction of relationship between the donors and donating organizations is important, it is also possible that the donation intention can be heightened directly by donor’s personal characteristics or organizational factors, which should also be considered when establishing donation strategies.
Sixth, it is confirmed that the relational level of individual donors with donating organizations is influenced by the period of religious life, the listening time of broadcast, the donation period and the donation amount of the donors. Especially, as the relation level of donors whose religious life and donation period is less than one year showed higher relational level with donating organizations, it is necessary to study on donation strategy for the beginner donors. One way to do that would be to establish donating strategies by segmenting donor groups.
Seventh, the fact that religious maturity of donors for religious broadcast has meaningful impacts on the period of religious life, the listening time of the religious broadcast, the donation amount and the donation period, shows that the religious maturity is important in donor behavior for religious broadcast. Therefore, it is necessary to heighten religious maturity of the listeners for the continuous donation intention.
The result of this study shows, as in many previous studies, that the demographic characteristics influence the donation behavior of individual donors. Especially, the religious characteristics influence positive impact on continuous donation intention, which is ascertained from the related marketing point of view. In addition, it is necessary to have new strategies in donor management for non-profit donating organizations through theoretical and operational points. Today, many enterprises experience difficulties with increasing company costs followed by the decreasing income of individual customers on top of the spread of management of putting importance on customer satisfaction. The non-profit donating organizations cannot look away from such a trend of competition caused by such social changes as there are more demanding donors asking for higher receptivity, and there are more variety in the characteristics of donors and enlargement of non-profit areas. Hopefully, this study is meaningful in providing the undertone to sustainable donation strategies as well as coping with the changes in the donation environment.