Relationship Between Union Membership, Union Satisfaction and Job Insecurity: An Application On Research Assistants

Fatih Karcioğlu () and Ensar Balkaya
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Fatih Karcioğlu: Ataturk University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labour Economics and İndustrial Relations, Erzurum, Turkey
Ensar Balkaya: Ataturk University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Labour Economics and İndustrial Relations, Erzurum, Turkey

Journal of Social Policy Conferences, 2018, vol. 0, issue 75, 307-326

Abstract: Job insecurity is one of the most important and overarching issues facing employees in labour relations. It is important to know whether the unions aiming to protect the rights of employees and support them against the problems that arise in the working life have a functional role at the point of job insecurity. Main purpose of this study is to explore the impact of union membership and union satisfaction on job insecurity. In this context, questionnaire was applied to total of 222 research assistants working with 130;33/a and 92;50/d staff in Ataturk University. The data analysis includes descriptive statistic, t-test and a regression analysis through SPSS 22 program. In the study, it was observed that union membership did not have significant impact on job insecurity but union satisfaction had negative significant impact on job insecurity. In addition, it was determined that researchers with 33/a staff had lower job insecurity than researchers with 50/d staff.

Keywords: Job insecurity; Union membership; Union satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.26650/jspc.2018.75.0017

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