FACTORS RELATED TO PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL INSTRUMENTALITY

MARC G. SINGER AND THOMAS LI-PING TANG

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DOI: 10.2190/YML4-XV8B-1537-ENCX

Abstract

This study was conducted four months after a publishing company's first labor union certification election. A union was defeated by a four-to-one margin in one bargaining unit of the organization with 200 supporting-staff manual workers. A random sample of 450 employees, selected from a cross-section of all workers, was asked to complete a questionnaire designed to measure organizational instrumentality and work-related variables. The results of a step-wise multiple regression based on 295 respondents indicated that organizational instrumentality was related to employees' perception of job security, extrinsic job satisfaction, organization-based self-esteem, low income, Japanese management style, division in the organization, low desire to change, gender (female), and a low level of consideration.

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