Free non-profit work

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Non-profit-making work includes unpaid, organized, social work as personal, non-profit engagement that is time-consuming, could in principle also be carried out by another person and could potentially be paid for.

Delimitations

The term voluntary non-profit work represents a deliberate differentiation from other terms of voluntary human activity , which are often associated with different schools of thought and normative considerations. The choice of the terminology for voluntary human activity already partly implies the importance one wants to give to this activity in a society.

In the Anglo-American region, volunteering is by far the most frequently used term for any kind of voluntary and unpaid engagement and is considered a core element of the American " mixed economy of welfare ". Today the term encompasses all levels of voluntary engagement and does not have to be associated with voluntary work . Wilson defines: " Volunteering means any activity in which time is given freely to benefit another person, group, or organization ". The terms civic engagement or civic work clearly point in the direction of considerations about civil society, as they are e.g. B. by Ulrich Beck (2000) or Anthony Giddens (1997) and have a strong political connotation.

Beck demands: “The specter of the working society without work should be countered with a vision that understands and uses what appears in the unbroken paradigm of the full-time employment society as a“ crisis ”and“ catastrophe ”as a historical opportunity, according to the motto: Citizen engagement instead of financing unemployment! ”The term volunteering is intended to address any kind of voluntary engagement, but semantically it is limited to forms such as“ political volunteering ”,“ senior volunteering ”and others.

Self-employment, in turn, is more broadly defined and includes both "" annoying "reproductive activities such as shopping and washing clothes, but also activities for" self-development "such as hobbies, relationship work, acquisition of qualifications." These activities can, but do not have to be performed as voluntary work.

The term free-community service has the advantage of freely-profit work of other non-paid activities delineate. The most widespread form of social "engagement", donations, is excluded because the engagement is not personal and the time required is very little. Non-profit work is separated from gainful employment and paid work in the third sector by excluding remuneration. However, this does not mean that every unpaid work is also voluntary work. Using the criteria of potential affordability and voluntariness, housework and family work as well as non-voluntary, non-remunerated activities, such as B. the community work of prisoners ( free labor (criminal law) ) excluded.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald A. Mieg, Theo Wehner: Frei-non-profit work: An analysis from the point of view of work and organizational psychology (Harburger contributions to the psychology and sociology of work No. 33). Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Ergonomics, 2002 (PDF, 582 kB) ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mieg.ethz.ch
  2. ^ Neufeind, M .: Expectation, experience and evaluation of voluntary non-profit engagements at the European Football Championship 2008 - A longitudinal study from an occupational psychological perspective. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Mannheim, Germany 2009.
  3. ^ Gaskin, Smith, & Paulwitz, 1996
  4. ^ Wilson (2000), p. 215
  5. ^ Mieg & Wehner, 2005
  6. ↑ Beck (2000), p. 417.
  7. ^ Backes, 1987
  8. ↑ Heinze & Keupp, 1997
  9. ↑ Harald A. Mieg & Theo Wehner. Volunteer work. Appears in: Frey / Rosenstiel / Hoyos: “Handbuch der Organizationalpsychologie” (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zoa.ethz.ch  
  10. ↑ Heinze & Offe, 1990

literature

  • Wehner, T., Mieg, H., & Güntert, ST (2006). Free non-profit work. In S. Mühlpfordt & P. ​​Richter (Eds.), Volunteering and gainful employment (pp. 19–39). Munich: Hampp.
  • Wehner, T., & Güntert, ST (2007). Free non-profit work. In H. Schuler & K. Sonntag (Eds.), Handbuch der Psychologie. Volume A&O Psychology (pp. 789-794). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

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