Social characteristics, barriers and motivational drives of volunteers in Manipur.

Lourembam Victoria Devi

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Social characteristics, barriers and motivational drives of volunteers in Manipur.

Lourembam Victoria Devi

Abstract :

Voluntarism is a fundamental source of community strength and resilience that exists in all societies throughout the world. Voluntarism is expressed through a wide range of activities, including traditional forms of mutual aid and self–help, formal service delivery, campaigning and advocacy, as well as other forms of civic participation. The nature of voluntarism has been changing and newly emerging trend of voluntarism are creating new situation, which requires new approaches and tools. Voluntarism has played important role in human civilization. Voluntarism is a cross cutting social phenomenon that involves all groups in society. It has a strategic role in community development processes and in strengthening community resilience. This paper is an attempt to indentify and analyze the various factors of volunteer involvement and organizational factors in voluntarism and also to study how the element of strategic management are linked to dimension of volunteerism and with what outcome. It may also be considered as the comprehensive study to understand and gain insights on social characteristics of voluntarism, to identity barriers to volunteering and to understand and assess the underlying motivational drives of volunteers and also to identify strategic issue dimensions of voluntarism. The study uses a conceptual framework developed to conduct the research work on strategic dimension of volunteerism in Manipur. The paper is based on extensive literature review whereby a conceptual model is developed to guide the fruitful conduct of research and thus the paper is conceptual in nature.