Do Union Organizers Matter? Individual Differences, Campaign Practices, and Representation Election Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3315686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas F Reed (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-119 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979398904300109 |
| OpenAlex | W2053128246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 37 |
Although many studies have investigated the determinants of union representation election outcomes, none has examined union organizers' influence on those outcomes. Based on a literature review and interviews with the directors of organizing of eight unions, the author of this study hypothesizes that certain personal characteristics of organizers are associated with success in organizing campaigns. An analysis of survey questionnaires completed by 64 organizers supports the general hypothesis that some personal and demographic characteristics of organizers affect both the percentage of pro-union votes and election outcomes
Affect (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Representation (politics) · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Transport and Economic Policies
Resources for Success
Peering Inside the “Black Box”
Labor's Youth Brigade
Opening the Ballot Box
The Cowboy Mentality
National Union Effectiveness in Organizing
Southern Organizing in the Post-Civil Rights Era
The Role of Union Strategies in NLRB Certification Elections
Estimating the Effect of "Change to Win" on Union Organizing
What Professionals Want
Self-esteem at work
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
Linear Probability, Logit, and Probit Models
Managerial Leadership
The desirability of control
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Occupations and values
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
Predicting the Outcome of Union Certification Elections
Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth
Desire for control and achievement-related behaviors
When actions reflect attitudes
Self-monitoring of expressive behavior
Union Organizing and Staying Organized
Perseverative behavior in a concept-formation task as a function of manifest anxiety and rigidity
The Effect of Union Characteristics on the Outcome of NLRB Certification Elections
The Effects of Corporate Strategy and Workplace Innovations on Union Representation
The Influence of Management Consultants on the Outcome of Union Certification Elections
Determinants of the Outcomes of Union Certification Elections
The Effect of Company Campaigns on Certification Elections
The Union Organizer and His Tactics
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2024 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |