TRADE UNION COMMITMENT AND A FIELD STUDY

Year 2017, Issue: 1, 67 - 81, 20.10.2017

Sevda Köse

Abstract

In this study, ıt has been
examined concept of trade union commitment and the  antedecedents’.In this terms it has been
studied the relation between participation trade union and trade union
commitment.. It has been try to find which extend of employee’s trade union
commitment by through valid and credible 
scale of antedecedents of trade union commitment in terms of
international scale.  The random sampling
method  was   used
for analyses.  Survey was applied 22
factory in Kocaeli,Sakarya,İstanbul and 1104 membership of trade union
employees but only 644 survey were suitable to examine. Factories  were not 
seperated in terms of  capacity
and number of workers. The SPSS analysis method was applied in this study. The
antecedents of trade union commitment are percieved trade union support ,trade
union attitudes,millitanist tendency,organizational justice ,trade union
satisfaction, ınstrumentality. It is deduce from this study there are positive
correlation between trade union commitment and antecedents of trade union
commitment. Two study was used in this study as a reference. Gordon and at  concluded that trade union commitment  has 
four dimension as trade union loyalty,belief of trade union, willigness
of trade union, responsibiltiy of trade union. But in this study it was not
deduced from four different dimension of trade union commitment. We could
approach dimension of trade union commitment as three. And our conclusion is
similar with Kellovay and at all. In The study of  Kelloway and our study could not see beliefs
of trade union as a  powerful dimension
of trade union commitment.

Keywords

Trade Union Commitment, Antecedents Of Trade Union Commitment, Participation Of Trade Union Commitmen

SENDİKAL BAĞLILIK VE BİR ALAN ARAŞTIRMASI

Abstract

Bu çalışmada sendikal bağlılık kavramı ve
öncülleri incelenmiştir. Bu bağlamda sendikal bağlılığın sendikal katılım ile
olan ilişkisi de ele alınmıştır. İşçilerin sendikalarına olan bağlılık
düzeyleri ve sendikaya bağlılığın öncülleri olan faktörler  uluslararası literatür baz alınarak güvenilir
ve geçerli ölçekler yardımıyla incelenmiştir.  Araştırma için ele alınan örneklem için
kolayda örneklem yöntemi tercih edilmiştir. Araştırma Kocaeli, Sakarya ve
İstanbul’da yer alan sendikalı 22 işletmede, 1104 kişi üzerine uygulanmıştır
ancak 644 anket incelemeye uygun görülmüştür. 
İşletmelerin büyüklükleri ve işçi sayıları açısından araştırmada
herhangi bir ayrıma gidilmemiştir. Çalışmada SPSS yöntemi ile analiz
gerçekleştirilmiştir. Sendikal bağlılığın öncülü olarak algılanan  sendikal destek, sendikal tutum,örgütsel
adalet  militanist eğilimler, sendikal
tatmin, araçsallık eğilimi ele alınmıştır.  Çalışmada sendikal bağlılığın boyutları ile
öncülleri arasında olumlu bir ilişki olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Bu
çalışmada   Gordon ve Kelloway’in
çalışmaları referans olarak kullanılmıştır. Gordon ve arkadaşları sendikal bağlılığın
sendikal sadakat, sendikal inanç, sendikal sorumluluk ve sendikal istek olarak
4 farklı boyutu olduğu sonucuna varmışlardır. Gordon’un çalışmasında olduğu
gibi sendikal bağlılığın alt boyutu olarak 4 boyut ortaya çıkmamıştır. Bu
çalışmada sendikal bağlılığın boyutu olarak 3 boyuta ulaşılmıştır. Kelloway’in
çalışmasında ve bu çalışmada sendikal inanç sendikal bağlılığın güçlü bir
boyutu olarak görülmemiştir.

Abstract

In this study, ıt has been examined
concept of trade union commitment and the  antedecedents’.In this terms it has been
studied the relation between participation trade union and trade union
commitment.. It has been try to find which extend of employee’s trade union
commitment by through valid and credible 
scale of antedecedents of trade union commitment in terms of
international scale.  The random sampling
method  was   used
for analyses.  Survey was applied 22
factory in Kocaeli,Sakarya,İstanbul and 1104 membership of trade union
employees but only 644 survey were suitable to examine. Factories  were not 
seperated in terms of  capacity
and number of workers. The SPSS analysis method was applied in this study. The
antecedents of trade union commitment are percieved trade union support ,trade
union attitudes,millitanist tendency,organizational justice ,trade union
satisfaction, ınstrumentality. It is deduce from this study there are positive
correlation between trade union commitment and antecedents of trade union
commitment. Two study was used in this study as a reference. Gordon and at  concluded that trade union commitment  has 
four dimension as trade union loyalty,belief of trade union, willigness
of trade union, responsibiltiy of trade union. But in this study it was not
deduced from four different dimension of trade union commitment. We could approach
dimension of trade union commitment as three. And our conclusion is similar
with Kellovay and at all. In The study of 
Kelloway and our study could not see beliefs of trade union as a  powerful dimension of trade union commitment.

 

Keywords

Sendikal bağlılık, sendikal bağlılığın öncülleri, sendikal sadakat, sendikal inanç, örgütsel adalet, sendikal destek

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