Validation of a measure of perceived union support.

Lynn M. Shore · Lois E. Tetrick · Robert R. Sinclair · Lucy A. Newton

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Labor Movements and Unions Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

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Research on union member attitudes has focused chiefly on union commitment and union instru-mentality, which has provided a limited view of the relationship of the union with its members. In this study a confirmatory factor analysis was done to evaluate the construct validity of a measure of perceived union support by examining its distinctiveness from union commitment and union instrumentality. A total of 287 members of a large telecommunications local in the Midwest com-pleted a survey of union member attitudes. Results showed that perceived union support was a unidimensional scale that was distinct from union loyalty and union instrumentality. However, all three of these constructs were correlated, suggesting the need for future research to examine poten-tial causal linkages. Until recently, very few studies in the applied psychology or management literatures have focused on members ' attitudes to-ward and perceptions of their unions. Starting with Gordon and his colleagues ' pioneering work on union commitment (Gor-

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