ITM / BWL Bachelor 5. Sem.
8398/8356: Leisure & Event Management II (Seminar):
Human Resource Motivation in
International Leisure & Event Management
           

TOPIC:

Motivation of "producers" in L&E Management including:
- (temporary) paid staff
- Volunteers
- Visitors

Goal: To understand the different forms of producers motivation and the challenges and opportunities arising from them for Leisure and Event Management especially with regard to the non-monetary motivation.

Leisure and Events:

development from non-commodity to commodification,

from self-organized to customized outsourced organisation

Motivation for work moving from monetary motivation (survival) to non-monetary motivation (self-actualization).

Problem of identification with company/project especially with temporary structures (events)

Major part of Leisure (Serious, Casual, per project) and Events work voluntary
- either volunteers working for production in more or less organized way  
- or visitors/participants/customers working for production by prosumption
  ("customer as employee")

Challenges and opportunities arising for management from the volunteering, non-coercive character of big part of Human Resources

Hard Copy Stebbins Volunteering as Leisure / Leisure as Volunteering (Introduction)

  Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS
Bachelor and Master Program International Tourism Management
arlt@fh-westkueste.de, Office 2.018, Tel. 0481 8555-513
Consultation hours (during lecFrre period): Friday 10.00 - 11.00 h