A Study on Union Commitments that Influence the Members of the Keelung City Customs Brokers’ Union on their Participation to the Union

• Main Authors: Hui-ping Lee, 李慧萍
• Other Authors: Ping-lung Hsin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70059036698558706244

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 94 === Under a free market economic system, the managements as a minority are in control of capitals and the important production means, whereas the labors need to provide their manpower and time for the relative wages in order to maintain the bread and butter for their everyday living. An intense relationship filled with oppositions and resistances is therefore easily found between labor and management in the environment today. Owing to the special political and economic backgrounds of our country, it is difficult for unions, (and especially unions) to elaborate on the functions that the unions should play. The unions of our country had been mocked on as “labor insurance unions” or “flower vase unions”; therefore we would like to find out whether a union exists in our country, which does not offer labor insurance or national health insurance services yet still operates and functions fully as a normal union? Do any union commitments exist between the union members and the unions? How strong are these commitments? And what are the reactions on the degree of participation to the unions? Reviews on academic literatures have shown that not much research was conducted on union commitments and member participation to the unions. Moreover, academic literatures focused on the studies on industry unions as opposed to unions. It is therefore the goal of this research to find out whether union commitments for the members would influence people’s decisions to join unions, through the discussion on related theories and physical evidences. Through this research we hope that we could gather and arrange some management references worth other unions to follow, as well as providing physical suggestions for the future development of the unions of our country. The subjects of this research are the members of the “Keelung City Customs Brokers’ Union” (currently with 1,200 members), in total 600 questionnaires were issued where 255 of them were collected and 243 of them valid. Factor analysis was used in this research to test the reliability and construct validity of the questionnaires. On confirmation of the reliability test, statistical methods such as the analysis of variance and the regression analysis were further used to come to the following conclusions: 1. Union commitments have strong positive effects on the member participation in the union: (1) The higher the “Union Loyalty” a member has for the union commitment, the higher is his/her participation to the union. (2) The higher the “Willingness to Work for the Union” a member has for the union commitments, the higher is his/her participation to the union. (3) The higher the “Responsibility to the Union” a member has for the union commitments, the higher is his/her participation to the union. 2. The personal statistic variables of the members have strong positive effects on their participation in the union: (1) Male members have higher union participation than female members. (2) The older member in age, the higher is his/her participation to the union. (3) The longer Member in union seniority, the higher is his/her participation to the union. (4) Members with union organizer experiences have higher union participation than members without prior union organizer experiences.