Union leadership and member attitudes: A multi-level analysis.

Abstract

Analyses of union leadership roles show that union presidents should have both a within-union focus and an external focus. The authors combined multi-level survey data from 3,871 union members in 248 local teachers' unions with archival and field staff data to examine relationships between leadership and members' perceptions of union instrumentality and justice, union commitment, and participation. The results showed significant union-level effects on members' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, their unions, attributable to the presidents' internal and external leadership, wage outcomes, and union characteristics. Relationships between internally focused leadership and members' loyalty and willingness to work for the union were partially mediated by perceptions of union instrumentality and justice. These perceptions fully mediated the relationship between externally focused leadership and union loyalty.

Developments in implicit leadership theory and cognitive science: Applications to improving measurement and understanding alternatives to hierarchical leadership

“…Most measures ask for behavioral ratings of how a leader typically behaves, which implies that raters aggregate perceptions across an unspecified time period comprising multiple types of events. In contrast, instruments which ground behavioral dimensions by specific events situated in specific contexts may be particularly useful in encouraging the retrieval of specific past examples of the relevant behavior and to discourage the usage of semantic memory (Gioia & Sims, 1985;Hammer, Bayazit, & Wazeter, 2009;Uleman, 1991).…”

“…Hammer et al (2009) designed scale items measuring union leadership to be contextually specific to the local unions, to the union activities, and to member concern for that union in an attempt to encourage event-based ratings. However, it still was not clear whether raters used remember or know judgments in this study.…”

Nouvelles identités professionnelles des femmes et syndicalisme : une possible compatibilité ?

“…De plus, la prise en compte des actions syndicales proactives et démocratiques repose sur la seule perception des employées. Il convient aussi de reconnaître que la démocratie syndicale est plus complexe puisqu'elle est aussi liée à la nature du leadership des représentants syndicaux (Hammer, Bayazit et Wazeter, 2009), un aspect absent de notre étude. Finalement, dans la mesure où l'échantillon de notre étude concerne uniquement les employées du Mouvement Desjardins au Québec, il n'est pas possible de généraliser les résultats à la grandeur du secteur financier québécois.…”

"Union Yes": The Moderating Effects of Union Instrumentality on Psychological Contract Violations

“…Union instrumentality was measured with a combination of two scales used by Hammer, Bayazit, and Wazeter (2009). The first is referred to as "union instrumentality for non-wage outcomes" and the other as "union instrumentality for wages."…”