Attitude Differences Between Paid Workers and Volunteers

✍ Scribed by Matthew A. Liao-Troth

• Book ID: 102554224
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1048-6682
• DOI: 10.1002/nml.11403

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study addresses the extension of research on paid employees to volunteer workers. Pearce (1978, 1993b) has postulated that job attitudes are substantially different between volunteers and paid employees, based on her work studying fourteen organizations employing either entirely volunteer workgroups or entirely paid workgroups. Another interpretation of her data would be that the organizational culture of such workgroups is different, not the individual job attitudes.