The organizer starts volunteer recruitment drive in the square in front of the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower in May 2009. Dissertation Research Title
Volunteer Management in Special Events Organizations
Nowadays volunteers become a core component and important element of event service delivery. The importance of volunteers in special events has been extensively acknowledged during the past decade. The special events companies meet economically higher convenience in investing on volunteers management.
The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyse and assess the use of volunteers and its programs in relation to the areas of special events management in the organisations of events industries. This includes the importance of using volunteers in the special events organization, the management of volunteers, recruitment and retention of volunteers and volunteers motivation. This dissertation will investigate the volunteer management styles, discuss the advantages as well as the main issues within the special events industry in China.
This research intends to enable special event organisations to benefit from the experience of others and contribute to the development of good practice in use of volunteer within events organisations in China. The main objective of the research is to provide a quantitative picture of the contribution of volunteers to the specail event organisations and indenttify the current trends in the use of volunteers, the main roles undertaken by volunteers, the contrbution of volunteers relative to paid employees, the problems and difficulties in the use of volunteers, and the good practises and ways to overcome these issues.
Methodology
A queationnaire survey will be sent to the special event organisations by email across the main cities of China. Respondents will be asked to fill out a questionnaire which designed for the Research Questions as mentioned above. The author aims to explore the importance of volunteers management in specail events organisations. This dissertation will be divided into two parts: theoretical and analytical. In the first part of the paper, the author will present those theories and concepts that are most interesting and valuable for the purpose of this research. Telephone interviews will be carried out with the person within the events organisations who complete the questionnaire.
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