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Sociology of cultural policy --- volunteering --- cultural heritage

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Nowadays, many companies accomplish social actions in order to have a positive impact on the society. Among these actions, we find employee skilled-based volunteerism, a particular form of corporate philanthropy. It consists for the company in a free transfert of her collaborators during their working time to non-profit structures. It is on this particular emerging practice that our research work focus.

A review of the literature on this subject has been conducted and has revealed that companies use skilled-based volunteering for strategic purposes. Researchers mention that this tool is used at different strategic level of the company: at the global strategy level, at the communication strategy level, at the corporate social responsibility strategy level and at the human resources strategy level. Our research aims to analyse if this facts apply to the Belgium territory. Indeed, the belgian litterature on the subject is limited. Moreover, no real cases were conducted by researchers to affirm the strategic dimension of skilled-based voluteering.

Thus, our research focus on four case studies of belgian companies that practice employee skilled-based volunteerism. Our study was conducted through individual interviews. The following steps undertake in our research process consist in interpretating the results found in our case studies and confronting them to the hypotheses from our theoretical framework.

skilled-based volunteering --- employee skilled-based volunteerism --- volunteering --- business strategies --- corporate social responsibility --- communication --- human resources --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Economie sociale

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What makes young people want to learn, commit and become involved in an activity? This issue is of particular interest to teachers, but also to employers. In order to provide some answers, the authors of this book are interested in a specific population: young people aged 16 to 25 who have freely chosen to get involved in associations as varied as sport, politics, the environment, humanitarian work or events. Based on interviews, this study traces the volunteer careers of some forty young women and men from all social categories. They proudly recall the responsibilities that were entrusted to them very early on in a structured, flexible and benevolent associative world. Their testimonies help to highlight the many learning and skills that the volunteer experience has enabled them to develop.

Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy --- volunteering --- adolescence --- work --- youth --- education --- training --- development --- involvement

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Ce manuel présente une stratégie fiable et rentable pour mesurer le travail bénévole. Il fournit une définition du travail bénévole, une méthodologie de mesure afin d'identifier les travailleurs bénévoles et ses caractéristiques, et une méthodologie pour estimer la valeur de leur travail.

Voluntarism. --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Bénévolat. --- Travail non rémunéré.

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This manual presents a data collection strategy for measuring volunteer work that is cost-effective and reliable. It provides a definition of volunteer work, a measurement methodology to identify volunteer workers and their characteristics, and an estimation methodology to value their work. The 18th ICLS discussed and approved the Manual in 2008, making this the first-ever internationally sanctioned guidance to national statistical agencies for generating official statistics on volunteer work, using a common definition and approach.

Voluntarism. --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Bénévolat. --- Travail non rémunéré.