Reducing the management load through deeper knowing of what volunteers know and can do
This paper is grounded in the premise that volunteers – by definition - are keen to contribute. Deeper knowing, by them and by others, of what they could contribute leads to enhanced satisfaction for all. ‘Many hands make light work’ - but there are factors to be considered, and managed, for the promise in this proverb to be realised and to avoid the dysfunction implied by ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’. There is a win/win when a manager of volunteers supports deeper drawing upon what a volunteer knows and can do in a way which couples adding to volunteer satisfaction with reducing the manag ... Show more
Authors: Hughes, Lewis
Published: Melbourne, Victoria, Volunteering Australia, 2008
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 10 p.
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