APPENDIX A – SECTION QUESTIONS OBJECTIVES Section 1 Your Name Sections 1 & 2, consist of, largely, closed-ended questions – Personal & Your Organisation and investigate issues such as organisational size, number Organisation Name of volunteers, number of paid employees, volunteer What is your role in demographics, funding, etc. This initial elicitation This section the organisation provides the necessary respondent and organisational provides an If you are a Paid information required by both projects. overview of Employee in your respondents in organisation, please Section 1 provides an overview of the organisation terms of roles & enter your Job Title their respective social missions and their volunteers. It is experience. Basic What is the primary expected that respondents will be either full-time organisational area of work of your employees in senior organisational positions or highly information is organisation? experienced volunteers (10 + years) these respondents – elicited re. their How many volunteers are expected to possess significant knowledge re. area of work and are currently involved volunteerism, the training & selection of volunteers, membership. with your Organisation Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing within in Ireland? the organisation and the use of IT within the organisation. How long have you been involved with Your Organisation? Have you ever been a volunteer or paid employee with any non-profit voluntary organisation? Section 2 How is your Some partner organisations receive funding and/ or – Funding organisation funded? have other significant sources of funding. Others have no Partner sources of funding or relatively insignificant funding. It is organisations argued that their fundraising activities nonprofits “through range from those affect the amount of funds available to them” (Luksetich, which have a 2008). These fundraising activities can impact ultimately variety of income upon state funding for the organisation. sources to those with none. How It is apparent that is also a link between funding and does this affect Knowledge Management. It is held that NGOs routinely issues such as create programs from scratch instead of drawing on “best training, IT, KM practices” developed by another organization. As a result, and the use of investment dollars from funding agencies are not Web 2.0 tools? effectively leveraged” (Hurley & Green, 2005)
A – SECTION QUESTIONS OBJECTIVES Section 1 – Personal & Organisation This section provides an overview of respondents in terms of roles & experience. Basic organisational information is elicited re. their area of work and membership. Your Name Your Organisation Name What is your role in the organisation If you are a Paid Employee in your organisation, please enter your Job Title What is the primary area of work of your organisation? How many volunteers are currently involved with your Organisation in Ireland? How long have you been involved with Your Organisation? Have you ever been a volunteer or paid employee with any non-profit voluntary organisation? Sections 1 & 2, consist of, largely, closed-ended questions and investigate issues such as organisational size, number of volunteers, number of paid employees, volunteer demographics, funding, etc. This initial elicitation provides the necessary respondent and organisational information required by both projects. Section 1 provides an overview of the organisation their respective social missions and their volunteers. It is expected that respondents will be either full-time employees in senior organisational positions or highly experienced volunteers (10 + years) – these respondents are expected to possess significant knowledge re. volunteerism, the training & selection of volunteers, Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing within the organisation and the use of IT within the organisation. Section 2 – Funding Partner organisations range from those which have a variety of income sources to those with none. How does this affect issues such as training, IT, KM and the use of Web 2.0 tools? How is your organisation funded? Some partner organisations receive funding and/ or have other significant sources of funding. Others have no sources of funding or relatively insignificant funding. It is argued that “through their fundraising activities nonprofits affect the amount of funds available to them” (Luksetich, 2008). These fundraising activities can impact ultimately upon state funding for the organisation. It is apparent that is also a link between funding and Knowledge Management. It is held that NGOs routinely create programs from scratch instead of drawing on “best practices” developed by another organization. As a result, investment dollars from funding agencies are not effectively leveraged” (Hurley & Green, 2005) APPENDIX