How “Collective†Is Union Citizenship Behavior? Assessing Individual and Coworker Antecedents

Ed Snape, Tom Redman and Julian Gould-Williams
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Julian Gould-Williams: Ed Snape is a Professor in the Department of Management at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Tom Redman is a Professor of Management at Durham Business School, Durham University, UK. Julian Gould-Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK.

ILR Review, 2014, vol. 67, issue 4, 1306-1325

Abstract: Contributing to an emerging literature on solidarity or group-norm effects on union participation, the authors examine the extent to which union citizenship behavior (UCB) can be characterized as a collective phenomenon. Findings from studies of UK local government workers and teachers suggest that, for organization-focused behaviors, it is meaningful to think of collective or group-level UCB. Furthermore, group-level UCB had a significant positive association with individual-level UCB. There was no evidence that a greater consistency of citizenship within a unit was associated with a stronger relationship between collective and individual citizenship behaviors. These findings suggest that it is worthwhile to analyze UCB as a collective phenomenon, and the authors call for more work on the contextual antecedents of union citizenship and participation.

Keywords: union citizenship behavior; union participation; union commitment; group norms; solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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