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Benefits of Supervision Reflected by Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations
Smělá, Barbora ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Baumgartner, František (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores subjectively felt effects of supervision on volunteers. The thesis firstly deals with supervision itself, secondly defines volunteering and lastly combines these two topics and dives into volunteer supervision. Volunteer supervision is closely related to supervision of helping professions, where is the main focus in professional literature. Volunteer supervision is based on helping professions supervision and is advanced by a plethora of methods used by volunteer organizations. The thesis bases upon relevant literature on supervision, mainly literature on social work supervision, volunteering and volunteer supervision. Another substantial source used is research into benefits of supervision for volunteers specifically. This thesis aims to analyze, how volunteers from volunteering organizations feel affected by supervision, and what kind of benefits supervision brings them. A significant element of this thesis lies in an empirical investigation, which analyzes the benefits of supervision stated by volunteers from selected volunteering organizations. This empirical investigation takes shape of a qualitative interviews with selected subjects, who volunteer to help the elderly. Topics in these interviews are taken from literature, which serves as a basis for each...
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