Why Fewer Workers Join Unions in Europe: A Social Custom Explanation of Membership Trends

Visser, Jelle

doi:10.1111/1467-8543.00241

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“…8 It can be seen from Table 2 that most of these 7 This corroborates descriptive evidence on the changing age structure of the metalworkers ' union IG Metall between 1979and 2002presented by Hassel (2007.…”

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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980-2006

Schnabel¹,

Wagner²

2009

Labormetrics

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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980-2006

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Wagner²

2009

Labormetrics

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“…Employees involved in labor movements were usually dissatisfied with certain aspects of their jobs (DeCotiis & LeLouarn, 1981;Heneman III & Sandver, 1982;Visser, 2002;Dhammika, Fias & Sam, 2012). However, researches indicate that job dissatisfaction was not sufficient to result in unionization (Premack & Hunter, 1988) -employees would only unionize if they believed that the union could eliminate the source of their job dissatisfaction or improve their working conditions (Charlwood, 2002;DeCotiis & LeLouarn, 1981;Kochan, 1979;Youngblood, DeNisi, Molleston & Mobley, 1984).…”

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Job satisfaction and employee’s unionization decision: The mediating effect of perceived union instrumentality

Shan

Zhi

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Abstract:Purpose: Given the current lack of literature in the background of China labor force, this study aims to investigate the relationships among job satisfaction, perceived union instrumentality, and unionization from a reference-frame-based perspective and explore the referred relationships in the context of Chinese labor market.Design/methodology/approach: The study introduces perceived union instrumentality as a mediator to the relationship between job satisfaction and unionization. The applicability of western theories was tested in the Chinese context by a questionnaire survey on 390 employees who were working in private sectors of Jiangsu Province in China. Four hypothesis were proposed and tested by data analysis to verify the model. Findings:The study found that most aspects of job satisfaction were negatively correlated with unionization and perceived union instrumentality, while perceived union instrumentality had a positive relationship with unionization. Perceived union instrumentality was also found to have a mediating effect on the relationship between job satisfaction and unionization. examining the relationships between job satisfaction, unionization and union instrumentality of Chinese employees. It pays a regular contribution to labor union studies both inside and outside China.

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“…While micro-level research typically uses individual-level surveys and enquires into members' characteristics and motivations to join a union (e.g. Visser 2002;Waddington and Whitston 1997), macro-level research analyses union density on a country level and tries to explain Daniel Oesch is at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne. doi: 10.1111doi: 10.…”

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