ABSTRACT
Referring to Chapter 2, which presents the concept of entrepreneurial competencies of employees, this chapter discusses mechanisms for developing employee competencies through corporate volunteering. The perspective on volunteer work characteristics here differs from that taken in previous chapters; hence, the mediating role of work meaningfulness and relationships at work are discussed again in this new context. Of the work characteristics, the type of volunteering beneficiaries and intensity of employees’ interactions with beneficiaries are discussed as antecedents of the variety of competence categories developed by employee participation in corporate volunteering programmes. The chapter presents a framework showing how different combinations of beneficiary type and intensity of beneficiary contact within volunteer projects lead to strengthening particular aspects of cognitive, emotional, and social intelligence competences.
