A Closer Look at the Difference Between Public and Nonprofit Employees’ Volunteering

• Main Authors: Chen, Chung-An, Lee, Young-Joo
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: International Public Management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80586; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40576
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Research generally reports that both public and nonprofit employees have higher levels of altruistic motivation, and attributes the difference in volunteering between these workers and for-profit employees to altruism. However, altruism may be limited in explaining the discrepancy in volunteering be...