Motivation to do voluntary work

The Bachelor´s thesis deals with the questions related to volunteering, more accurately with the motivation to volunteer. The volunteers are the people who help socially handicapped people not entitled to receive any financial or other support. The motivation to become a volunteer is influenced by many factors to which for example altruistic values, career needs, social relations, etc. belong. The Bachelor´s thesis proposes to find the objectives and needs of the volunteers according to the length of volunteer practice. But in the fact it results from the model of the functional analysis of volunteering of M. Snyder & Associates, which is based on the principle of motivations of a great part of human behaviour based on objectives and needs. The nature of these motives are found through the quantitative research. The data were collected by means of the M. Snyder & Associates questionnaire, which was filled in by 40 respondents, volunteers for companies Fokus České Budějovice and Fokus Tábor, the home hospice Jordán, daily and weekly social welfare institution Klíček, the programme "Pět P" in České Budějovice and the volunteer centre Hestia. The research brought a lot of interesting finding, including preferred as well as dismissive motives. The motive of understanding was the most frequent motive to volunteer, on the contrary, social relations became the least frequent one. There are small differences between the volunteers with differentiated length of volunteering. A long practice oftentimes appears to be the expression of altruistic values related to humanitarian care for the others. Short volunteering experience is more often distinguished by individual personal growth, development and improvement