The ‘extra’ sparkle in higher education Institutions: Exploring staff perceptions towards corporate volunteering

Silva, Carina; Mendes, Telma; Ferreira, Marisa R.; Faria, Tatiana

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The analysis of barriers to volunteering and the intraorganizational conditions that can promote or hinder employee engagement in volunteer programs are important for researchers and practitioners. Despite the relevance of these topics, they remain unexplored in the context of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), especially from the staff perspective. This represents an important theoretical gap, as HEIs are institutions that act in the public interest and represent the ideal context for spreading the culture of corporate volunteering due to their potential to connect theory to practice. Therefore, this study aims to explore how intraorganizational support moderates the relationship between both motivations and barriers to volunteering with the personal/impersonal outcomes of participating in these activities. The research is based on a sample of 155 public HEI employees obtained from the Northern Euro-region of Portugal/Galicia. The results of the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) suggest that motivations to volunteer were positively associated with personal/impersonal outcomes stemming from these activities, while barriers to volunteering were negatively related. When testing the moderating effects, we found that HEI intraorganizational support weakened (strengthened) the positive (negative) relationship between motivations (barriers) to volunteer and the personal/impersonal outcomes stemming from volunteer activities. Overall, this empirical evidence allows us to understand both motivations and barriers to volunteering, as well as how intraorganizational conditions discourage participation in volunteering.

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corporate volunteering, intraorganizational support, motivations, barriers, personal and impersonal outcomes. Corporate Social Responsibility

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Carina Silva; Telma Mendes; Marisa R. Ferreira; Tatiana Faria. The “Extra” Sparkle In Higher Education Institutions: Exploring Staff Perceptions Towards Corporate Volunteering. Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific Conference "Region, Entrepreneurship, Development" (RED). 2024.