Public Employee Attitudes toward Unions

General union attitude: A construct validation

“…The twenty-item "Unionism in General" subscale, created during the mid 1950sby Uphoff and Dunnette (1956), has been employed the most frequently, even though this represents only three subsequent studies. What this table does not show is that seven of the other measures presented here are derived from the Uphoff and Dunnette subscale (Bigoness and Tosi, 1984;Furnham, 1984;Huszczo, 1983;Krahn and Lowe, 1984;McShane, 1985;Ponak and Fraser, 1979;Ponak and Janz, 1984;Smith and Hopkins, 1979).…”

“…They employed the entire original scale in their study, however. Several of the other general union attitude scales listed in Table 1 have been formed as a result of factor analysis on a larger set of items (Furnham, 1984;Glick et aI., 1977;Gordon et al, 1980;Huszczo, 1983;Kochan, 1978;Ladd et aI., 1982;Smith and Hopkins, 1979).…”

Individualism–collectivism as predictors of BPO employee attitudes toward union membership in India

“…The new middle class identifies with an image of a professional that the BPO work provides them (Sandhu, 2006). With regard to the employees' personal and occupational characteristics such as work situation dissatisfaction, life experiences (Smith & Hopkins, 1979) and job satisfaction (Parkes & Razavi, 2004) were found to have influence and were able to predict union attitudes. Therefore, employees' moral fiber in terms of demographic characteristics, work stress and job satisfaction of participants were measured and controlled in the present study.…”

Unionization and Job Satisfaction Among Professional Library Employees in Academic Research Institutions

“…9 In an effort to explain the above findings, researchers such as Russell Smith and Anne Hopkins argue that the politicization of the work force by the presence of the union is one possible cause of decreased job satisfaction. 10 It is believed that in an effort to attract and maintain membership, unions emphasize the shortcomings of a work situation, which then acquire a greater importance for the employees.…”