How "Collective" Is Union Citizenship Behavior? Assessing Individual and Coworker Antecedents

Contributing to an emerging literature on solidarity or group-norm effects on union participation, the authors examine the extent to which union citizenship behavior (UCB) can be characterized as a collective phenomenon. Findings from studies of UK local government workers and teachers suggest that, for organization-focused behaviors, it is meaningful to think of collective or group-level UCB. Furthermore, group-level UCB had a significant positive association with individual-level UCB. There was no evidence that a greater consistency of citizenship within a unit was associated with a stronger relationship between collective and individual citizenship behaviors. These findings suggest that it is worthwhile to analyze UCB as a collective phenomenon, and the authors call for more work on the contextual antecedents of union citizenship and participation

Citizenship · Collective behavior · Consistency (knowledge bases · Epistemology · Norm (philosophy · Organizational citizenship behavior · Phenomenon · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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