Work Values Among Professional Employees in Union and Nonunion Research Library Institutions

Hovekamp, Tina Maragou

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb02369.x

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“…Synder, Verderber, and Morris (1986) noted that the research has usually compared samples from work sites with no union representation with those in which union membership is mandatory (Hovekamp, 1994). Nevertheless, these studies neither allow comparisons between union members and non-members, nor allow any implication on work settings in which unionization has hitherto not taken place.…”

Section: Unionsmentioning

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

Sarkar

2007

Asia Pac J Manag

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“…They also found similarities in the values held by library science students and faculty. Hovekamp (1994) studied the work values of unionised and non-unionised librarians in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries and found no significant differences in the work values of librarians in unionised versus non-unionised libraries. Allen (1998) investigated the work values of library science students as compared to those of business students and found differences in their attitudes toward work.…”

Section: Electronic Accessmentioning

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Values for librarians in the information age: an expanded examination

2000

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The library profession has been concerned with ethical issues since its beginning. Ethical issues raised in the early years dealt primarily with librarians’ responsibility to the employer or patron. The focus later shifted to questions of professional identity, organisational environment, and social responsibilities. Rapid technological change and the advent of the information age are forcing the library profession to rethink its mission and responsibilities. This paper expands research on a survey of librarians’ ethical values reported by Dole and Hurych (forthcoming) at the 1998 EEI21 Symposium. In the 1998 study, they conducted a survey of North American librarians and librarians at a conference in the Crimea (Ukraine) to examine the values considered most important by each group and to identify differences in the priorities of values assigned by the groups studied. They found that all three groups held similar values. The current study replicates the 1998 survey among librarians throughout the world. Additional professional and demographic data were collected during the second iteration to support consideration of professional training, library experience and type, and professional responsibilities as possible factors contributing to value formation.

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“…This literature helps inform an understanding of the possible effect of union affiliation on employees' perceptions of the work environment. Hovekamp (1994), for example, found no significant differences in the work values of union and nonunion professional librarians. However, in a survey of several major industrial sectors, Sanchez and Juetten (1988) found differences between union and nonunion members regarding satisfaction with salary issues.…”

Section: The Effects Of Union Membership On the Work Environmentmentioning

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“…A second body of research has been conducted on union membership in business and industry, and has addressed a variety of topics including the impact of union status on job satisfaction (Berger, Olson, and Boudreau, 1983;Gordon and DeNisi, 1995), work attitudes (Boothe and Lincoln, 1993), level of commitment to employer (Conlon and Gallagher, 1987), and level of attachment to union and productivity (Meador and Walters, 1994). In addition, research that compares union and nonunion employees has investigated attitudes toward union representation (Hills, 1985), work values among professional employees (Hovekamp, 1994), the perceived role of unions (Keegan, 1987), and support for worker participation (Olson and Fenwick, 1986), among others. This literature helps inform an understanding of the possible effect of union affiliation on employees' perceptions of the work environment.…”

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Peterson

1997

Research in Higher Education

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Evidence of substantial growth in unionization among university noninstructional staff over the past 20 years (Hurd and Woodhead, 1987) and the emergence of a quality movement in higher education linking employee attitudes toward the work environment with increased productivity point to the need for additional research into union and nonunion staff perceptions of the work environment. This paper describes a conceptually oriented, exploratory study of the university work environment as perceived and defined by union and nonunion noninstructional staff. Public-sector union participation expanded rapidly between 1960 and 1976 (Edwards, 1989), but was followed by 20 years of little growth. In 1994, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor, 1994) estimated that approximately 16.7 million wage and salary employees, 15.5% of total U.S. employment, were union members. Of this total, 7.1 million worked in federal, state, and local government, where they constituted 38.7% of employment. In addition, another 1 million public-sector workers were represented at their workplace by a union, though these workers are not union members themselves. While blue-collar employees in higher education have been organized for decades (Becker, 1990), in recent years union activity has spread to other groups of workers including clerical and technical employees. In 1983, clerical and technical employees at Yale University, Adelphi University, and the University of Cincinnati, as well as clerical workers in universities throughout Iowa

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Work Values Among Professional Employees in Union and Nonunion Research Library Institutions

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

Values for librarians in the information age: an expanded examination

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