A Study on The Relationship between Passion for Work and Burnout in Sport Volunteers: The Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment

• Main Authors: Wen, Yao-Cheng, 文耀正
• Other Authors: Chen, Kuan-Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f44bmu

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 休閒運動健康系所 === 104 === Abstract: With the recent prevalence of sports culture in Taiwan and the increase of various sizes and types of sporting events, the demand for sports volunteers have gradually increased. This study based on the viewpoint of sports volunteers who provide unpaid services, is to explore the reasons why them decide to engage in such volunteering services. For the current knowledge up to date, very few empirical studies had explored whether the organizational commitment played the mediating role between personal characteristics (work passion) and psychological characteristics (work burnout) for the sports volunteers who provide unpaid work. Although many past studies had examined the mediating effects of organizational commitment between work passion and work burnout, most of their research subjects were on companies or paid service providers; only few studies focused on the unpaid volunteering participants. Thus, the present study examined the effects of work passion and work burnout for sports volunteers under various types of organizational commitment. After collecting the data of 331 sports volunteers, this study found that the sports volunteers who have harmonious passion tend to have higher affective commitment. On the contrary, those who have obsessive passion tend to have higher and continuous commitment as well as normative commitment. Therefore, this study validates that the organizational commitment indeed plays the mediating role between work passion and work burnout. Finally, this study offers a few suggestions concerning management based on empirical results as the reference for future research.