Workplace Empowerment and Disempowerment
What Makes Union Delegates Feel Strong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11229858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, corresponding author), Christian Lévesque (0000-0003-1124-7140, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada), Catherine Le Capitaine (Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177-201 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labor Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0160449x14534732 |
| OpenAlex | W2316025066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
This study of workplace union delegates in the education sector identifies a typology of the experience of workplace union representatives according to their assessment of their degree of influence in their workplace and their union and their degree of control over their work as a union representative. When combined, these two assessments yield different types of disempowerment and empowerment. While workplace context plays an important role in delegates’ degree of control, their influence in the workplace and union is strongly associated with different types of power resources (internal and external networks) and strategic capabilities (learning and articulating or bridging). Unions seeking to increase workplace representative influence should therefore look to the reinforcement of delegates’ power resources and strategic capabilities while looking at how to reinforce their ability to deal with more difficult contexts associated with feeling a loss of control
Context (archaeology · Control (management · Economics · Empowerment · Feeling · Management · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Typology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Organizational Downsizing and Restructuring · Psychology · Social Psychology
Union Revitalization Strategies in Comparative Perspective
Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities
Understanding union power
New Public Management
Rethinking Social Movements
La “gouvernance” de l’éducation au Canada
Gendered Projects of Solidarity
Local versus Global
Union Renewal, Postheroic Leadership, and Women’s Organizing
Local Union Leaders' Conception and Ideology of Stewards' Roles
Unions as Social Capital
The Experience of Leadership
Changer la fonction publique
New Public Management
New Public Management in Public Sector Organizations
Public Service Modernization and Trade Union Reform
Gender as more than a dummy variable
Renewal or resilience
Shop Stewards in Action
Learners of the workplace unite
Union Disaffection and Social Identity
Resources and Resourcefulness
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |