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Future Professionals and Managers: Their Attitudes Toward Unions, Organizational Beliefs, and Work Ethic
Author(s) -
Pesek James G.,
Raehsler Rod D.,
Balough Robert S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00072.x
Subject(s) - psychology , work ethic , socialization , sample (material) , social psychology , work (physics) , organizational commitment , public relations , political science , chemistry , chromatography , mechanical engineering , engineering
The authors replicate and extend the research on future workers' union attitudes, organizational beliefs, and work ethic. Selected demographic and attitudinal data were collected from a sample of 644 students at a small, western Pennsylvania university. Compared to earlier research on pre‐employment predictors of union attitudes, this study is based on a much larger sample size and includes a cross‐section of majors. The results offer additional support for the family socialization process; in general, future professionals and business managers are more sympathetic to labor unions if they were children of union members. In addition, the results show that student major has a significant and systematic impact on both positive and negative union attitudes.