Attitudes Toward Unionization in an Employee-Owned Firm in the Southwest

Abstract

Attitudes toward unionization in an employee-owned firm with over 500 employees, located in the Southwest, are analyzed in relation to several hypotheses. Previous research has emphasized the primacy of dissatisfaction with economic versus noneconomic factors; on that point, the findings of this study are somewhat equivocal. Based on multiple regression analyses of a broader group of variables related to five hypotheses, the variables found to be most significant are (1) dissatisfaction with wages, (2) dissatisfaction with supervision, (3) low organizational identification, and (4) low participation in the stock ownership plan.