Academic Librarians and Labor Unions: Attitudes and Experiences

Mills, Chloe; McCullough, Ian

doi:10.1353/pla.2018.0046

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“…For examples, they found that salary incentive is one of the most effective incentive methods. Subject librarians with longer work service are more likely to strive for higher pay, and the number of male subject librarians involved in the fight for higher pay tends to be higher than the number of women; satisfied and stable income guarantee can effectively motivate librarians to work hard [2,3]. Many researchers have found that the compensation level, office conditions, fair chance, justice, professional promotion, emotion, learning training, faculty status and tenure, and organisational socialisation factors have a significant effect on librarian satisfaction.…”

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Compensation incentive contract of the subject librarians based on the H-M model

Wang

Lili

2021

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Based on the H-M model, the compensation incentive model is constructed under the inter-task cost function. The best compensation incentive contract is constructed by solving the incentive model, and the incentive characteristics are analysed. The results show that the best incentive intensity decreases as the subject service selectivity increases. The higher incentive intensity of university managers for specific tasks, the lower efforts of subject librarians for another specific task. Moreover, when the tasks are substituted for each other, the profit-sharing ratios corresponding to different tasks are complementary. Finally, we establish the econometric empirical models to test these results.

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Compensation incentive contract of the subject librarians based on the H-M model

Wang

Lili

2021

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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“…Walters pointed out that most colleges and universities in the United States only give librarians the nominal status of teachers [11]. However, Mills and McCullough believe that granting teacher status does not improve the professional status of librarians, and suggest increasing the compensation of subject librarians through unionization and collective bargaining [12]. Silva conducted a survey of 846 subject librarians in ARL institutions and found that giving librarians a stable income is an important factor that motivates them to work harder [13].…”

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The Incentive System of the Subject Librarians in the University Library

Wang

Lili

2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Based on the principal-agent theory, we introduce the specific task ability, construct the optimization model of the incentive system of the subject librarians, and discuss how to design the incentive system to achieve "win-win". According to the best incentive system, the variables are selected and measured by real data. An empirical model is established based on the econometrics theory, and the related theoretical conclusions are tested according to the empirical results. It is found that when the information is asymmetric, the best incentive system is composed of the optimal fixed income and the optimal value share. The higher the level of ability, managers should strengthen incentives and the subject librarians will increase the intensity of their efforts; the lower risk preference and the higher random selection, managers should weaken incentives and the subject librarians will reduce their efforts.

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“…These new contracts include consideration of pay, benefits, hours, leave, job health and safety policies, ways to balance work and family, and more (see, for example, https://aflcio.org/what-unions-do/empowerworkers/collective-bargaining). Collective bargaining agreements are legally binding contracts, with a history of labor law behind them (Mills & McCullough, 2018).…”

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