Training for volunteers - A multiple case study investigating the relationship between volunteer motivations and required training programmes

10.26686/wgtn.17061020 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Philip Ronald Daly

Keyword(s):

Research Question ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Career Motivation ◽

Volunteer Training ◽

Wide Range ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Training Programmes ◽

The Impact ◽

Volunteer Motivations

<p>This thesis reports on a multiple case study exploring the impact of required training programmes upon the motivations of new volunteers. The core research question is: How are the primary motivations of volunteers affected by the initial training that they are required to complete? Previous research has investigated the motivations of volunteers, and sought to measure the efficacy of volunteer training programmes. However there is little research investigating how volunteer motivations and volunteer training programmes influence each other. Volunteers from two contrasting volunteer organisations were interviewed about their motivations to volunteer, experiences of the volunteer training, and any subsequent changes in motivation. Prior to these interviews the volunteers were given the Volunteers Function Inventory (VFI) questionnaire which measures volunteer motivations. The interview data was analysed using a six phase process of thematic analysis, and the motivational themes from this analysis were checked against the results of the VFI Questionnaire. The study found little difference in the overall motivations of volunteers between the two organisations, though there were differences in how these motivations were expressed within each organisation. Both sets of volunteers displayed high levels of altruistic and knowledge-based motivations, with the career motivation being the most variable, and age and stage of life appearing as a key moderator for the motivations. Volunteers appreciated training that they perceived as being relevant, and that utilised peer-learning, but both training programmes lacked the flexibility required to have a high level of relevance to a wide range of learning needs and motivations. Ultimately the motivations of the volunteers were improved by the training when they found that it either helped them to be more effective in their volunteer roles, or related well to their motivations for volunteering.</p>

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Jornalismo e deliberação pública: um estudo de casos múltiplos Journalism and public deliberation: a multiple case study Periodismo y deliberación pública: un estudio de casos múltiples

Comunicação & Sociedade ◽

10.15603/2175-7755/cs.v39n3p5-28 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

Solano Dos Santos Nascimento

Keyword(s):

Social Problems ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Public Deliberation ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

ResumoO artigo apresenta o resultado de um estudo de casos múltiplos a respeito da relação entre três reportagens que trataram de problemas sociais – publicadas pela revista Época e pelos jornais O Globo e Correio Braziliense - e mudanças na legislação que teoricamente buscaram resolver os problemas apontados pelas reportagens. O estudo concluiu que houve influência das reportagens nas mudanças em leis, mas que esse impacto teve nuanças bastante distintas.AbstractThis report presents the results of a multiple case study about the relationship between three stories that dealt with social problems - published by Época magazine and O Globo and Correio Braziliense newspapers - and changes in legislation that theoretically sought to solve the problems pointed out by the stories . The study conclusion was that there was influence of the stories in laws changes, the impact had quite different shades. ResumenEl artículo presenta el resultado de un estudio de casos múltiples acerca de la relación entre tres reportajes sobre problemas sociales-publicados por la revista Época y por los periódicos O Globo y Correio Braziliense - y cambios en la legislación que teóricamente buscaron resolver los problemas señalados por los reportajes . El estudio concluyó que hubo influencia de los reportajes en los cambios de leyes, pero que ese impacto tuvo matices muy distintos.

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Das Chamäleon-Modell als Erklärungsmuster für die Organisationsstrukturen von Unternehmerfamilien

ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship ◽

10.3790/zfke.67.1.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 1-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rena Haftlmeier-Seiffert ◽

Sven Cravotta

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Family Business ◽

Research Question ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Economic Stability ◽

Family Organization ◽

The Family ◽

Different Types ◽

Multiple Case

Zusammenfassung Offensichtlich sind es die Unternehmerfamilien, die ihrem Familienunternehmen eine besondere wirtschaftliche Stabilität verleihen. Dies ist allerdings nur möglich, wenn sie sicherstellen, dass sie stets handlungs- und entscheidungsfähig sind. Die hier verfolgte Forschungsfrage lautet deshalb: Wie organisieren Unternehmerfamilien ihre Entscheidungsfähigkeit? Das Chamäleon-Modell zeigt, dass bei Unternehmerfamilien verschiedene Organisationsformen latent vorhanden sind. Diese werden flexibel eingesetzt, je nachdem, was zielführend ist, um schnell zu tragfähigen Entscheidungen zu gelangen. D.h. die Unternehmerfamilienorganisation wechselt also ihre explizite Organisationsform wie ein Chamäleon die Farbe. Das Chamäleon-Modell wurde aus einer multiplen Fallstudie entwickelt, bei der vier traditionsreiche Unternehmerfamilien intensiv untersucht wurden. Abstract Apparently, it is the family that grants outstanding economic stability to the family business. However, this is only possible, if the family ensures to be always capable of acting and of making decisions. This leads us to the following research question: How do entrepreneurial families organize their decision-making ability? The Chameleon Model shows, that there are different types of organization latent available for entrepreneurial families. These are used flexibly, depending on what is leading to quick and stable decisions. That is to say, the entrepreneurial family organization changes the explicit organization form like a chameleon the colour. The Chameleon Model was developed from a multiple case study, analyzing four traditional entrepreneurial families in depth.

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Coaches’ interpersonal emotion regulation and the coach-athlete relationship

Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité ◽

10.1051/sm/2019011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 37-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Courtney Braun ◽

Katherine A. Tamminen

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Contextual Factors ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Emotional Expressions ◽

Emotional Labour ◽

Bidirectional Association ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The Impact

Researchers have examined the impact of coaches’ emotional expressions and emotional intelligence on athlete outcomes (Allan, V., & Côté, J. (2016). A cross-sectional analysis of coaches’ observed emotion-behavior profiles and adolescent athletes’ self-reported developmental outcomes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 28, 321–337; Thelwell, R.C., Lane, A.M., Weston, N.J., & Greenlees, I.A. (2008). Examining relationships between emotional intelligence and coaching efficacy. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 224–235; van Kleef, G.A., Cheshin, A., Koning, L.F., & Wolf, S.A. (2018). Emotional games: How coaches’ emotional expressions shape players’ emotions, inferences, and team performance. Psychology of Sport & Exercise). However, there is little research examining coaches’ use of specific strategies to regulate their athletes’ emotions. The purpose of the present study was to explore the strategies coaches used to try and regulate their athletes’ emotions, and to explore the relationship and contextual factors influencing coaches’ IER strategy use. A longitudinal multiple case study approach was used (Stake, R.E. (2006). Multiple case study analysis. New York: The Guilford Press) with five cases, each consisting of one male coach and two individual varsity sport athletes (N = 15). Participants completed individual interviews, a two-week audio diary period, and a follow-up interview. Data were inductively and deductively analyzed and a conceptual model was developed outlining athletes’ emotions and emotion regulation, coaches’ IER, the coach-athlete relationship, and contextual factors. Participants described a bidirectional association between the coach-athlete relationship and coaches’ IER. A number of factors influenced athletes’ and coaches’ use of emotion regulation strategies and contributed to the quality of the coach-athlete relationship. The IER strategies that coaches used may reflect instrumental, performance-related motives, and coaches’ IER efforts may also contribute to coaches’ emotional labour.

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A multiple case study on the impact of pair programming on product quality

Proceedings. 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005. ◽

10.1145/1062455.1062545 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Hanna Hulkko ◽

Pekka Abrahamsson

Keyword(s):

Product Quality ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Pair Programming ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The Impact

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PRODUCT INNOVATION IN SMALL COMPANIES: MANAGING RESOURCE SCARCITY THROUGH FINANCIAL BOOTSTRAPPING

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919617500207 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (02) ◽

pp. 1750020 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

LARS LÖFQVIST

Keyword(s):

Product Innovation ◽

Research Question ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Resource Scarcity ◽

Small Companies ◽

Functional Categories ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Main Factor

Researchers have proposed that scarce resources are the main factor hindering product innovation in small companies. However, despite scarce resources, small companies do innovate, so the research question is: How do small companies manage resource scarcity in product innovation? To answer the research question a multiple case study of three small established companies and their product innovation was used, including interviews and observations over a period of five months. The small companies were found to use many different bootstrapping methods in combination within their product innovation. The methods can be classified into three different functional categories: bootstrapping methods for increasing resources, for using existing resources more efficiently, and those for securing a fast payback on resources put into product innovation. Due to their resource scarcity, the studied companies also favoured an innovation strategy only involving new products done with known technology and targeting existing markets. This strategy seems to avoid unsuccessful innovation but at the same time exclude technologically radical innovation.

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The impact of the Internet of things on global trade: a multiple-case study on multinationals

Transnational Corporation Review ◽

10.1080/19186444.2018.1475076 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 108-114

Author(s):

Maria José Sousa

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

The Internet ◽

Global Trade ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The Impact ◽

The Internet Of Things

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The impact of e-procurement systems on customer relationship management: a multiple case study

International Journal of Procurement Management ◽

10.1504/ijpm.2009.024814 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 314 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alan D. Smith

Keyword(s):

Customer Relationship Management ◽

Relationship Management ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Customer Relationship ◽

Multiple Case ◽

The Impact

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INNOVATION MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES OF A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR IN INNOVATION NETWORKS

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919610003008 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (06) ◽

pp. 1047-1064 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

JAAKKO PAASI ◽

KATRI VALKOKARI ◽

TUIJA RANTALA ◽

HENRI HYTÖNEN ◽

SOILI NYSTÉN-HAARALA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Knowledge Integration ◽

Innovation Management ◽

Research Question ◽

Multiple Case Study ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Innovation Networks ◽

High Demand ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Component Assembly

The paper describes findings from a multiple case study about the innovation management challenges of a system integrator (SI) whose operation is characterized by a high demand of innovation and whose focus of integration capabilities is, accordingly, changing from component assembly to knowledge integration. The study involved six diverse case firms, and it applied the methodology of qualitative research. Innovation networks orchestrated by the SI were categorized, according to the way in which knowledge and intellectual property (IP) were explored and exploited in the network, to sourcing (transaction) and co-creation types of networks. The research question of the study was, what aspects of sourcing networks and of co-creation networks support or hinder networked innovation from the viewpoint of a SI and innovation management? After iteratively addressing the lessons learned from literature and empirical case findings, sets of supporting and hindering aspects were presented as implications of the study.

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