Future Professionals and Managers: Their Attitudes Toward Unions, Organizational Beliefs, and Work Ethic

The authors replicate and extend the research on future workers' union attitudes, organizational beliefs, and work ethic. Selected demographic and attitudinal data were collected from a sample of 644 students at a small, western Pennsylvania university. Compared to earlier research on pre‐emplo...

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Published in:Journal of applied social psychology 2006-06, Vol.36 (6), p.1569-1594
Main Authors: Pesek, James G., Raehsler, Rod D., Balough, Robert S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Labor unions
Managers
Occupations
Organizational behaviour
Trade unions
Work ethic
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Summary:The authors replicate and extend the research on future workers' union attitudes, organizational beliefs, and work ethic. Selected demographic and attitudinal data were collected from a sample of 644 students at a small, western Pennsylvania university. Compared to earlier research on pre‐employment predictors of union attitudes, this study is based on a much larger sample size and includes a cross‐section of majors. The results offer additional support for the family socialization process; in general, future professionals and business managers are more sympathetic to labor unions if they were children of union members. In addition, the results show that student major has a significant and systematic impact on both positive and negative union attitudes.
ISSN:0021-9029
1559-1816
DOI:10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00072.x