The janus face of professional trade unions : an organisational justice perspective

dc.contributor.advisorWocke, Albert
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateEngelbrecht, de Villiers
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-06T12:33:17Z
dc.date.available2015-05-06T12:33:17Z
dc.date.created2015-04-24
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis research study investigated the concept of professional workers’ propensity to embark on industrial action in the context of organisational justice on an individual level; as well as the collective conditions of union commitment and professionalism. The study also made enquiries into the perceived Janus face of professional trade unions in terms of how they aim to be perceived as professional associations, acting as guardians of standards, professionalism and their members’ status, which is contradicted by their organisational mandates to extract concessions from employers through industrial action on a collective level. Data was collected through a quantitative approach, using survey questionnaires which were distributed to scheduled airline pilots in South Africa in their capacity as professional workers. The survey questionnaires elicited 199 responses, which provided valuable insights into professional workers’ propensity to embark on industrial action in the context of organisational justice. The responses, on average, were instructive, aside from the fact that no significance could be attributed to professionalism as a moderator of professional workers’ propensity to embark on industrial action. Contrary to expectations and prior research, it was found that the collective conditions captured by union commitment were statistically more significant than any individual factors, represented by organisational justice constructs, on professional workers’ propensity to embark on industrial action. Professional trade unions are indeed Janus-faced; a duality that presents trade unions with a dichotomy in that on the one hand they have a mandate to extract concessions from employers, but on the other hand are expected to remain professional and uphold the status and standards of the industries that they represent.en_ZA
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dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.description.librarianlmgibs2015en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationEngelbrecht, D. (2014). The janus face of professional trade unions: an organisational justice perspective (MBA mini-dissertation).Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/1818en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/45011
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectLabor unionsen_ZA
dc.subjectOrganizational behavioren_ZA
dc.subjectJustice -- Evaluationen_ZA
dc.subjectQuantitative researchen_ZA
dc.titleThe janus face of professional trade unions : an organisational justice perspectiveen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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