Union Government in the U.S.: Research Past and Future

Strauss, George

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.1977.tb00090.x

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“…Other studies using multivariate designs found that education was positively related to participation (Kochan 1978;Hoyman and Stallworth 1987;McShane 1986a). Seniority (tenure) was also found to be a significant and positive predictor of participation (Kochan 1978;Strauss 1977). British studies tend to complement North American studies in finding that job tenure, educational attainment, and parental union orientation are related to participation within white-collar unions (Nicholson, Ursell, and Blyton 1981).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…(Spinrad 1960;Perline and Lorenz 1970;Strauss 1977;McShane 1986b. ) We expect that in Japan's seniority-based wage and promotion system (nenkd joretsu seido), members with higher job status and seniority will be more likely to be union leaders.…”

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“…Since seniority is captured more directly by age and union membership tenure variables in the model, the pay variable (SALARY) is viewed as another measure of one's stake in the job, as Strauss's (1977) …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, we investigate the validity in Japan of models of union participation that were developed primarily in North America. During America's "Golden Age" of union governance research in the 1950s (see Strauss 1977), member participation in union activities received considerable attention. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in participation, with new perspectives and increased methodological rigor.…”

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Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply?

Kuruvilla¹,

Gallagher²,

Fiorito³

et al. 1990

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This study investigates the validity in Japan of union participation models developed in North America. The results of ordinary least squares analysis suggest that members' participation in unions is positively related to many of the same factors in Japan as in North America: for example, length of union membership, pay, dissatisfaction regarding pay and working conditions, degree of interaction with others in the work group, and perceptions of the union's effectiveness and its democratic character. Some findings at odds with those of Western studies, however, are that older workers and better-educated workers are less (rather than more) likely than others to actively participate, and job status is unrelated (rather than positively related) to participation.

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Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply?

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Fiorito³

et al. 1990

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“…Dual commitment is possible when relations between union and management are positive, but the presence of strong conflict tends to push workers toward unilateral commitment to one side or the other. The literature (Strauss, 1977;Tannenbaum, 1965) suggests that union activists have a strong stake in their employment situation. Therefore, some forms of union participation may carry stronger potential for such conflict to occur than other forms.…”

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Dual Commitment to the Organization and the Union

Cohen¹

2006

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This study examines the multi-dimensional nature of the dual commitment to the organization and the union. Most research that has examined this concept has used only one dimension for each commitment. The most established, multi-dimensional scales of organizational and union commitment were examined in their relationship to work and union correlates. The participants were 489 members (a 65% response rate) of the Union of Nurses in Israel. The findings showed that while affective commitment and union loyalty are related to the correlates examined here, the additional dimensions added significant variance to the results already explained by affective commitment and union loyalty. For example, normative commitment is related to four correlates and the variable “willingness to work for the union” is also strongly related to the correlates. The study concluded that utilizing only one dimension to examine each commitment might result in the loss of valuable information on dual commitment.

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Stress experienced by active members of trade unions

Nandram

Klandermans

1993

J Organ Behavior

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The literature presents role conflict, role ambiguity and role overload as psychological stressors which arise when a person plays conflicting roles, receives conflicting signals of what the environment expects of him, or both. Complexity increases when a role or a plurality of roles involves more activities and when a person functions in more than a single system (environment) and hence is faced with a variety of role senders. Research into this kind of stress has not covered active labor union members, even though their position would seem to make them likely stress candidates. In this article we demonstrate that active union members do indeed face role problems. We also report findings that are generally supportive of the expected positive assoCiation between active union members' experience of the central component of burnout (viz. emotional exhaustion) and each of the examined role problems individually and in combination (i.e. an index of overall role stress). Further, the results of a multiple regression analysis showed that emotional exhaustion was most strongly associated with intra-sender conflict and qualitative role overload.' In this article we will use the term active union members, which is interpretable as union officials or shop stewards. ' There are no 'closed shops' in the Netherlands. Therefore the union membership in a company is not identical to the workforce.

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Union Government in the U.S.: Research Past and Future

Cited by 59 publications

References 38 publications

Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply?

Union Participation in Japan: Do Western Theories Apply?

Dual Commitment to the Organization and the Union

Stress experienced by active members of trade unions

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