Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0219578

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0219578

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Managing the Volunteer Workforce: Flexible Structures and Strategies to Integrate Volunteers and Paid Workers. Volunteers now play a vital role in many service-oriented organisations. This project proposes an innovative framework to assist organisations to develop flexible and appropriate structures and strategies for the management of volunteer and paid workforces. The approach draws upon Atkinson's (1984) "Flexible Firm" concept. A flexibility model is applied to the relationship between volunteers and the broader workforce. The project aims (a) to understand, conceptualise and evaluate the roles, functions and structure of volunteer groups within paid workforces; (b) to investigate how positive relationships, training, effective communication and flexibility can enhance the contribution of volunteers in the workforce and (c) to propose mechanisms which can improve the deployment of human capital within larger service-oriented organisations such as the National Museum of Australia and Museum of Victoria.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-2002

End Date: 04-2004

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $67,635.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industrial Relations | Organisational Planning And Management | Business and Management | Human Resources Management

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Productivity | Changing work patterns | Management |

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