Research Article

Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations

Volume: 8 Number: 2 December 31, 2024
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Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations

Abstract

Management has long been a key factor in organizational success. Today, non-profit organizations are increasingly significant, expanding their influence both in Turkiye and globally. Like businesses, they rely on effective management to achieve sustainable operations. Volunteerism, historically essential to non-profits, is also crucial to their success, making volunteer management a strategic focus. This dissertation will examine the management style of non-profits, assess the impact of volunteer management on overall performance, and address key challenges in managing volunteers. In this project, it shall be tried to find out managerial issues on volunteerism in a non-profit organization scope of Turkiye as well as define the influences of the management style of non-profit organization. Thus, it might be occasion for better management structure which is more profitable, sustainable and convenient management style to manage volunteers in Turkiye. It shall be needed to undertake primary research which involves quantitative research. This research will include questionnaire separately to volunteers in non-profit organizations and managers of non-profit organizations. Further, this project aims to examine the managerial issues and its influences on volunteers and voluntary operations of the non-profit organization.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Business Administration

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

December 31, 2024

Publication Date

December 31, 2024

Submission Date

November 14, 2024

Acceptance Date

December 30, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 8 Number: 2

APA
Gürbüz, H. Z. (2024). Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Yönetim Dergisi, 8(2), 115-132. https://doi.org/10.7596/jebm.1585532
AMA
1.Gürbüz HZ. Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations. JEBM. 2024;8(2):115-132. doi:10.7596/jebm.1585532
Chicago
Gürbüz, Hidayet Zahid. 2024. “Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations”. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Yönetim Dergisi 8 (2): 115-32. https://doi.org/10.7596/jebm.1585532.
EndNote
Gürbüz HZ (December 1, 2024) Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations. Ekonomi İşletme ve Yönetim Dergisi 8 2 115–132.
IEEE
[1]H. Z. Gürbüz, “Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations”, JEBM, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 115–132, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.7596/jebm.1585532.
ISNAD
Gürbüz, Hidayet Zahid. “Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations”. Ekonomi İşletme ve Yönetim Dergisi 8/2 (December 1, 2024): 115-132. https://doi.org/10.7596/jebm.1585532.
JAMA
1.Gürbüz HZ. Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations. JEBM. 2024;8:115–132.
MLA
Gürbüz, Hidayet Zahid. “Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations”. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Yönetim Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 115-32, doi:10.7596/jebm.1585532.
Vancouver
1.Hidayet Zahid Gürbüz. Volunteer Management and Its Impact on Overall Operations. JEBM. 2024 Dec. 1;8(2):115-32. doi:10.7596/jebm.1585532