Volunteer leadership: The role of pride and respect in organizational identification and leadership satisfaction

We introduce and test with structural equation modeling an identity-based model of volunteer leadership (Study 1: N = 109 volunteers; Study 2: N = 183 volunteers). Volunteers take pride in the organization, due to leader communication about the effectiveness of the volunteer work and leader prototypicality. Volunteers feel respected by their leaders due to supportive leadership and leader encouragements for expressing ideas within the non-profit organization. These aspects of volunteer leadership relate to identification with the non-profit organization and the satisfaction with the leadership among volunteers, via respectively pride in the non-profit organization and respect from the leadership of the non-profit organization. Implications for leadership and avenues for further research are discussed.