Determinants of Union Member Attitudes Towards Employee Involvement Programs

This study investigates the role social information and personal dispositions play in the development of attitudes of unionized employees towards employee involvement programs. A theoretical model was developed in order to understand how social information and dispositions form union member attitudes towards employee involvement programs. This was designed from models of employee involvement and attitude formation. Data were collected from employees at electrical power generation facilities. Measures of organizational and union commitment, locus of control, participativeness, social information provided by the company, social information provided by the union, and employee involvement attitudes were gathered through a survey distributed at the facilities. General affect and satisfaction towards four types of employee involvement programs union members are most likely to encounter were measured. Specific hypotheses were developed in order to test and analyze parts of the theoretical model. While the results were at times contrary to the hypothesized relationships within the model, the data fit with the theorized model well enough to provide support for it. This model effectively demonstrated how employee involvement attitudes are formed from such data, and the relationships between the variables measured.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Management

Department dc:contributor.department

Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Hoell, Robert Craig

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Robinson, Jerald F.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Robinson, Jerald F.
• Murrmann, Kent F.
• Partridge, Dane M.
• Connerley, Mary L.
• Singh, Kusum

• Structural Equation Model
• Social Information Processing
• Organizational Behavior
• Employee Attitudes
• Industrial Relations
• Labor Relations
• Labor Unions
• Employee Participation
• Employee Involvement
• Latent Variable Model
• LISREL
• Human Resource Management

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-8898-171248

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/30741