The Importance Of Sport Event Volunteering

2234 Words5 Pages

Sport event volunteer motivation is important to understand in recruitment, retaining and rewarding. Previous studies in that have examined this area have suggested that motives for sport event volunteers can be labelled (with examples) as Solidary motives were the highest, followed by purposive motives, whereas Family values and Free time were the lowest ranked motives for volunteering. There were no differences in motives between men and women, background to transplants (donor, Tx relatives, or has signed the donor card) however, volunteers with disabilities significantly rated higher commitment motives than volunteers without disabilities. One aim of the organizers was to recruit volunteers with disabilities which was extremely important Public engagement volunteers rated much higher in satisfaction and importance of the uniform than the supportive sport volunteers. The most visible aspect of the uniform was the plain tee-shirts worn by the volunteers with the ETSW logo on the chest. The volunteers at the sports championships could have been outside for long periods and during the week there was heavy rain. In most cases, weather efficient clothing would have been more suitable to cope with the unpredictable climate. In addition, public engagement volunteers rates much higher satisfaction than the event makers in the satisfaction and importance of the application process. Volunteers needed to complete an application form and the selection process needs a systematic filtering system to match skills and experience with the roles needed to be filled. Intention for future volunteering Recruitment of volunteers is challenging for all event organisers. This can be made easier by contacting volunteers that have already experiences in participating in events. Therefore, it is important to know about the intention for future volunteering. Respondents completed a set of questions about future intentions for sports events, sports clubs, However, like most other multi-sport events, more female volunteers took roles over men. Several studies have shown a female majority among volunteers at major sporting events (Doherty, 2009 ; Farrell et al. , 1998; MacLean and Hamm, 2007 ; Pauline and Pauline, 2009; Strigas and Jackson, 2003) also in Finland (Itkonen, Ilmanen, Lämsä, Matilainen & Metsäranta 2006, 59 ; Aarno-Kaisti & Virolainen 2013, 61 ; Laitila, Ratilainen, Puronaho & Virkkunen 2015, 43 ). The female majority s is clear example of late modern volunteer cultures (Hustinx & Lammertyn 2003 ) in which female/women represent reflexive volunteering which includes more supportive volunteering assignments. Men represent more collective volunteering which is based on regular volunteering in sports clubs (Skirstad & Hanstad 2013

Open Document