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SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INCENTIVES AND INDIVIDUAL'S TIME CONTRIBUTION TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATION
| Abstract: Voluntarism in any society is a sign of nation’s development and it has significant role in people’s life. The members of society are required to work together with the government to be able to cope with all social, economic and political changes. Voluntarism is the practice of contributing time by a skill, idea, or aid for charitable organisation in a society. Voluntarism is a social responsibility, which is beneficial for individuals and the community. Individual’s contribution may be influenced either by self-concerns, community-concerns, or both. People are motivated by different incentives such as personal, social and psychological factors and the extent of these incentives is differing from one society to another. The main objective of this study is to investigate the incentives that motivate people to volunteer in Oman mainly, social and psychological incentives including peers pressure, empathy, and guilt. The result of the study showed that the most significant incentives are peer pressure, sense of dereliction, obligation toward the society, and self-esteem.Defiantly, peers and friends have a great influence over individual’s decision to volunteer. Barely, all participants admitted that peers influenced them and then they could influence on others. However, empathy and guilt about the society were not strong factors in influencing individuals. It is likely that people volunteer for self-concerns more. Influence was determined according to several socio-demographic factors, which are gender, age, income, level of education, and martial status. It had been noticed from observing the focus groups that males’ participants have more knowledge and experience in the volunteering sector. They are volunteering for several organisations and managing their own. Comparatively, females are emotionally affected by a specific event where they will have an immediate action of volunteering. Probably they would volunteer less than males. This study might clarify the voluntarism behaviour among people and what exactly would motivate them to volunteer their time. It would help the reader to understand how people react toward the society and why would they give with no gain. This understanding might be more important for owners of non-profit organisations so they would specify their tactics in attracting more volunteers |
| Keywords: social, psychological incentives, charitable organisation, voluntarism |
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