Workplace Empowerment and Disempowerment

What Makes Union Delegates Feel Strong

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11229858
AutoresGregor Murray (Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, autor correspondente), Christian Lévesque (0000-0003-1124-7140, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada), Catherine Le Capitaine (Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada)
Ano2014
Volume39
Fascículo3
Páginas177-201
Data de publicação2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLabor Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0160449x14534732
OpenAlexW2316025066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas39

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