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Degree and Direction of Paid Employee/Volunteer Interchange in Nonprofit Organizations
Author(s) -
Chum Antony,
Mook Laurie,
Handy Femida,
Schugurensky Daniel,
Quarter Jack
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.21072
Subject(s) - interchangeability , workload , quarter (canadian coin) , business , degree (music) , marketing , public relations , psychology , management , political science , economics , computer science , archaeology , acoustics , history , programming language , physics
This study builds on an earlier one (Handy, Mook, and Quarter 2008) that examined the degree of interchangeability between volunteers and paid employees in nonprofit organizations. In the current study, we surveyed 836 nonprofits in Canada to understand what factors determine the degree of interchange between paid employees and volunteers, bearing in mind that this interchange can go in two directions: paid employees for volunteers and volunteers for paid employees. We found the degree of interchange to be widespread and in both directions. One of the most important predictors of the likelihood of interchange was the number of full‐time employees, suggesting that interchangeability occurs less frequently in organizations with a larger number of employees than in those with fewer employees. Religious congregations and organizations with workload increases were more likely to interchange tasks among volunteers and paid staff.