Beneficios del Voluntariado Corporativo para la gestión de los Recursos Humanos
Resumen
En este documento se identifican los beneficios del Voluntariado Corporativo para la gestión de Recursos Humanos presentes en la literatura científica, se los organiza en tres categorías (desarrollo de habilidades en los empleados, fortalecimiento del vínculo entre ellos y la empresa, creación de condiciones que mejoran su desempeño) y se presentan los resultados de una investigación que tuvo como objetivos: a) comprobar la ocurrencia de esos beneficios; b) determinar si la misma depende de factores estructurales de las empresas (tamaño, sector de actividad y origen del capital) y de factores relacionados con la gestión del voluntariado. Se trabajó con una muestra no probabilística de empresas que aplican el voluntariado en Uruguay, a las que se aplicó un cuestionario estructurado que incluyó ocho indicadores sobre beneficios. Se encontró, mediante test estadísticos, que los ocho beneficios están presentes en la experiencia de las empresas estudiadas y que su ocurrencia es independiente del perfil de las empresas, de la forma como se gestiona en ellas el voluntariado y del alineamiento de las actividades de voluntariado con las políticas de Recursos Humanos.
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