Engaging the Nonprofit Workforce: Mission, Management and Emotion

The Opportunity Knocks Engaging the Nonprofit Workforce: Mission, Management and Emotion report helps nonprofit employers better understand their employees’ engagement.

The goal of this project, the only study of its kind on employee engagement specifically focused on the nonprofit sector, is to better understand the ways in which nonprofit employees are engaged and the impact of employee engagement and disengagement upon employees, nonprofit organizations and communities.

This report provides recommendations and addresses management and organizational factors that affect engagement including:

• Mission Attachment
• Career Development
• Compensation & Benefits
• Job Specificity
• Management Relations
• Participatory Management
• Emotional Engagement & Burnout

“A better understanding of employee engagement may help organizations identify better strategies to engage their employees, avoid burnout, and ultimately decrease turnover rates, in addition to lowering costs and creating more effective organizations.” quotes Karen Beavor, President and CEO of Opportunity Knocks. “True to our mission, this demonstrates our commitment to support nonprofit organizations build successful human resource strategies.”



Opportunity Knocks thanks our research Partner Organizations