Handbook of Employee Commitment
Edited by John P. Meyer
Chapter 12: The rise, decline, resurrection, and growth of union commitment research
Patrick Horsman, Daniel G. Gallagher and E. Kevin Kelloway
Abstract
The nature and extent of members’ commitment to their labor union has been a topic of research interest for approximately 75 years. Although the rationale for studying member commitment has varied across the years, union commitment has emerged as a central variable in understanding union_member relations and, by extension, the process of unionization. The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) provide a brief review of the history and development of the construct of union commitment; (2) examine the current state of knowledge regarding the predictors, consequences, and correlates of union commitment; and (3) to re-evaluate the operational measures of union commitment and offer the outline of a research agenda that is intended to reinvigorate the study of union commitment.
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