Model of union participation: The impact of perceived union support, union instrumentality, and union loyalty

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tetrick, Lois E.; Shore, Lynn M.; McClurg, Lucy Newton; Vandenberg, Robert J.
• 署名单位: George Mason University; California State University System; San Diego State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.3.820
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 820-828
• 关键词: union participation; union support; union instrumentality

摘要

Perceived union support and union instrumentality have been shown to uniquely predict union loyalty. This study was the first to explicitly examine the relation between perceived union support and union instrumentality. Surveys were completed by 273 union members and 29 union stewards. A comparison of 2 models, 1 based on organizational support theory and 1 based on union participation theories, found that the model based on organizational support theory, in which union instrumentality was an antecedent to perceived union support and led to union loyalty and subsequently union participation, best fit the data. The model based on union participation theories, in which perceived union support was an antecedent of union instrumentality and led to union loyalty and subsequently union participation, was not supported. Union instrumentality was related to union commitment, but the relation was completely mediated by perceived union support.