Corporate Volunteer Programs: Maximizing Employee Motivation and Minimizing Barriers to Program Participation

Thanks for drawing attention to this research and for Steve's concise summary and comment. What it highlights for me is that indicators for successful employee volunteering mirror those for any type of successful volunteering. The same volunteer management issues come through - offering choice and variety, linking opportunities to people's interests and needs, providing worthwhile and rewarding roles, excellent co-ordination and support etc. Why that should surprise me, I don't know! Working in this field and directly with companies it is easy to forget - few companies actually see these points as important, they're too busy counting numbers of participants and hours done to look at the quality of experiences! Also agree that more research is needed to better understand the benefits of employee volunteering, specifically the business case. We've relied for too long on the assumption that it's just the right thing to do and therefore "good".