Influences on the felt need for collective bargaining by business and science professionals

Abstract

Examined the extent to which samples of professionals working in industry are interested in unionization and some of the factors that are associated with this interest. 26 "business" professionals and 38 "science" professionals indicated in a survey questionnaire how they felt about the necessity for collective bargaining. They also completed selective sections of the Management Styles Survey to report how they felt about their jobs, the fairness of people, their supervisors' style, and their organizations. Although the professionals as a whole were close to the midpoint in felt need for collective bargaining, science professionals felt much more need than did business professionals. Additional covariance was associated with disbelief in the fairness of people, an authoritarian rather than a consultative boss, job insecurity, and perceived lack of trust in the organization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)