Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment

Arbeitspapier

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu- reaucrat, who supplies some input to the non-profit unit, but has opportunity costs in doing so (e.g. Dean of faculty, corrupt representative, government agency). We find that marginal changes in the balance of power eventually have dramatic effects on donated labor. We also identify when strengthening the non-profit unit decreases and when it increases donated labor.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 474

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
• Subject: donated labor ; intrinsic motivation ; non-profit organizations ; power within organizations ; Nonprofit-Organisation ; Arbeitsangebot ; Ehrenamtliche Arbeit ; Fundraising ; Soziales Verhalten ; Bürokratie ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grout, Paul ; Schnedler, Wendelin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/127292
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET