Why Authenticity in Corporate and Employee Volunteering Matters for Employee Engagement: An Organisational Behaviour Perspective

Megan Paull () and Craig Whitsed ()
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Megan Paull: Murdoch University
Craig Whitsed: Curtin University

A chapter in Disciplining the Undisciplined?, 2018, pp 193-210 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Corporate and employeeemployee volunteering is increasingly significant within the context of organisational behaviour, receiving increased attention around the world. The research exploring this is scattered and uneven, with different perspectives shaping disparate discourses. While there is limited definitional consensus, corporate and employee volunteeringcorporate and employee volunteering is considered an employee engagementemployee engagement initiative and a corporate socialsocial responsibility activity. Placing emphasis on the behaviour of individuals, the giving of time, planned activity and the recipient as external, non-profitprofit or charitable organisation Rodell et al. (J Manag 42(1):55–84, 2016: 57) defines employee volunteering as “employed individuals giving time during a planned activity for an external non-profit or charitable group or organization”. While Volunteeringvolunteering AustraliaAustralia (n.d.) promotes corporate volunteering as the provision of opportunities to employees to develop staff and teams skills which can bolster a company’s reputationreputation within the communitycommunity . The multiple storylines contain nuanced and often conflicted understandings of the purpose, and benefits of volunteering in the corporate environment. This chapter explores the discursive positioning of corporate and employeeemployee volunteering through the lens of positioning theorytheory . It is a powerful conceptual heuristic that provides a socialsocial constructivist theoretical framework through which to consider the ‘moral order’, positions and storylines that together delimit possible actions and the meanings of what is expected, permissible, said and done. Positioning theorypositioning theory provides new insights into volunteering as an analytical tool within the organisational behaviour discipline and discoursediscourse .

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71449-3_12

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