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Collective Bargaining and Faculty Job Satisfaction
Author(s) -
Krieg John M.,
Wassell Charles S.,
Hedrick David W.,
Henson Steven E.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12027
Subject(s) - collective bargaining , job satisfaction , workload , compensation (psychology) , representation (politics) , psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , labour economics , social psychology , business , demographic economics , political science , economics , management , computer science , law , artificial intelligence , politics
Estimates of the impact of union membership on job satisfaction suffer from nonrandom self‐selection of employees into unions. In this paper, we circumvent this problem by examining the impact on satisfaction of collective bargaining representation, rather than of union membership. We use a two‐stage technique that controls for nonrandom selection of faculty into institutions, and apply that to a panel of faculty at repeatedly observed four‐year universities. We find that bargaining agreements increase satisfaction with compensation but reduce satisfaction with faculty workload. Bargaining has no statistically measurable impact on overall job satisfaction or on faculty's satisfaction with their authority to make decisions regarding their instructional duties.