Volunteer Engagement And Commitment Essay

A study was conducted to among 232 active volunteers from 18 nonprofit organizations to determine whether there is a difference between organizational commitment and task engagement. Many organizations utilize volunteers to accomplish their organizational mission. According to the Independent Sector Research, there is a recent decline in the number of volunteers. A common challenge faced by nonprofits is retaining volunteers who are satisfied and committed with the organization.
In the volunteering field, engagement and organizational commitment is not often studied, which results in confusion among nonprofit leaders. The research strategy used addressed volunteer distinctiveness, which demonstrated that they relate differently to outcomes of interest. A Regression analyses …show more content…
Participants were asked a series of questions using various scale pertaining to: volunteer engagement, organizational commitment intention to remain and psychological well-being. Since permanence and well-being are positive and long-awaited outcomes among workers and among volunteers, who work, although not for money, and can quit at will it is necessary and relevant to know whether engagement and commitment exhibit different predictive patterns with these variables. Results show that, although highly related, engagement and commitment appear to be two different factors with high levels of internal consistency. They also show a clear and different relationship pattern: organizational commitment is related to intention to remain over the long term, while volunteer engagement is not, and volunteer engagement is related to self-acceptance, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth (psychological measures of well-being), while commitment is