There is an increasing interest from scholars and practitioners in understanding how non-
profit organizations can design and implement human resources (HR) practices to enhance …

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the
sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert …

Although the work of the voluntary sector is growing, the number of people volunteering is
not increasing at a comparable rate. This paper argues that the key to an organisation's …

Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment
to a form of self-enhancing work, where the sense of achievement is high and the core …

This review paper focuses on volunteers in community sports associations (csa s). Such
associations are a major context of sports volunteering across Europe, Canada and …

Leisure has been widely examined within the context of social science theory. This article
adopts a broad approach, examining a range of social science disciplines and applying …

A sample of older adult volunteers (N= 20, 65 years and older) in community sport
organizations was interviewed in order to understand their experiences with volunteering …

This paper considers the ways in which research into the psychological contract of
volunteers have been constrained by the direct transfer of measures from the study of …

Community sport is characterized by networks of individ uals who come together to
volunteer their time for community sport organizations (CSOs), as well as external …

Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic
terms, with volunteering being referred to as" unpaid (productive) work". This economic …