Motivation and Care for Volunteers in Scouts

Zveza tabornikov Slovenije je najvecja mladinska organizacija v Sloveniji. Šteje vec kot 7.000 clanov. Prostovoljci so vkljuceni prav v vse gradnike njenega delovanja, torej imajo dela in odgovornosti v organizaciji veliko. Namen moje diplomske naloge je bil raziskati, kakšno je stanje med prostovoljci pri tabornikih – kako se pocutijo, kakšna je njihova motivacija, ali so pod stresom, koliko se nacrtovalci posvecajo skrbi za prostovoljce, kje bi prostovoljci potrebovali vec podpore, v cem so vodilni v organizaciji pri tem že dobri, in kako si izobraževalci predstavljajo ideal skrbi za prostovoljce. Moja raziskava je bila kvalitativna, eksplorativna in empiricna. Vzorec je neslucajnostni, in sicer kvotni in prirocni. Izvedla sem tri fokusne skupine s tremi razlicnimi stopnjami prostovoljcev v taborniški organizaciji – z izvajalci, nacrtovalci in izobraževalci. Rezultate sem nato kvalitativno obdelala. Ugotovila sem, da so si prostovoljci pri tabornikih med seboj zelo razlicni po vlogi v organizaciji, zadolžitvah in kolicini izkušenj. Izkazalo se je, da je motivacija za zacetek in nadaljevanje prostovoljstva drugacna, da je njihova motivacija pogosto povezana z obcutkom dolžnosti do organizacije, da prostovoljcem, sploh manj izkušenim, zelo veliko pomeni podpora, ki je ne dobijo vedno, da so kar pogosto pod stresom zaradi velike kolicine dela pri tabornikih, da je v marsikaterem rodu komunikacija med vodniki in vodilnimi prostovoljci neucinkovita, da vecina tabornikov cuti mocno pripadnost do taborništva. Seveda niti pozitivnih niti negativnih ugotovitev ne gre posploševati na vsak rod, saj so si tudi ti med seboj precej razlicni.National scout organization of Slovenia is the biggest youth organization in Slovenia. It has more than 7.000 members. Volunteers are included in all aspects of it\u27s operation, which means they have a lot of work and responsibility in the organization. The purpose of my graduation thesis was to research in what kind of condition are volunteers in scouts– how are they feeling, what is their motivation, are they feeling any stress, how devoted are unit leaders for care for volunteers, where would volunteers need more support, what are leader in the organization already good at and how do assistant leader trainers imagine the ideal in care for volunteers. My research was qualitative, explorative and empiric. The sample was non-probable, I used quota and convenience sampling. I performed three focus groups with three different levels of of volunteers in scout organization – leaders, unit leaders and assistant leader trainers. Then I used qualitative analysis for analyzing the data. I found out that volunteers in scouts are very different from one another in regards to tasks and experiences. It turned out that motivation for beginning and continuation with volunteering is different, that their motivation is commonly connected to the feeling of duty to the organization, that volunteers, especially those with less experience, really value support, that they do not always get, that they are pretty commonly under stress because of too much work for scouts and that communication between group leaders and unit leader is ineffective in many scout units and that most of the scouts feel a strong belonging to scouting. Of course not positive and not negative findings can not be generalized for every scout unit, because they are ccery different from each other