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Union Influence on Local Union Leaders' Perceptions of Job Insecurity: An Empirical Test
Author(s) -
Johnson Nancy Brown,
Bobko Philip,
Hartenian Linda S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00763.x
Subject(s) - perception , wage , job security , sample (material) , labour economics , job insecurity , test (biology) , demographic economics , work (physics) , political science , business , social psychology , psychology , economics , mechanical engineering , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , engineering , biology
Although recent studies have demonstrated that union workers value job security, little research exists about what causes these perceptions and how unions might affect them. In this study, a job insecurity measure is developed and analysed using a sample of union members. The results indicate that the relationships between union variables and individual perceptions of insecurity depend on the organizational level at which threats occur (e.g. arbitrary supervision or organizational decline). Furthermore, for higher source‐level threats, union members are often sensitive to the wage‐employment trade‐off in that, if they perceive their union to effectively raise wages, they have higher levels of job insecurity. However, work rules do not appear to have much effect on reducing job insecurity perceptions.