The perceptions of employment equity and black economic empowerment as predictors of union commitment.
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, K. , Roodt, G.
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: Employment equity , Black economic empowerment , Union commitment , BEE , EE
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6383 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1126
- Description: The purpose of the study was to test whether the perceptions of employment equity (EE) and black economic empowerment (BEE) are related to union commitment and whether the perceptions about the mentor’s role significantly mediate this said relationship. The sampling frame for the study constituted 1200 employees of a division of a large public transport organisation and a convenience sample including all 1200 employees yielded 637 fully completed records (a 53% response rate). The results of the study indicate that the perceptions of EE and BEE are significantly related to union commitment, but that perceptions of the mentor’s role do not mediate this relationship. More detailed findings on the study are reported.
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Theoretical and empirical linkages between work-related commitment foci.
- Authors: Roodt, G.
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: Work-related foci , Work-related alienation , Commitment , Workaholsim , Organisational related involvement , Union commitment
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6296 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1045
- Description: No study has been reported thus far in the commitment literature which clarifies the relationship between six workrelated foci on a comparable theoretical basis. Such a comparison was made possible by the development of six instruments to operationalise involvement, commitment towards work, job, occupation, career, union and school as cognitive predispositions. A random, proportionally stratified sample of 510 teachers was drawn from 184 schools and a population of 4166 teachers from a previous provincial department of education. Only 279 of the 385 usuable questionnaires were fully completed and used for final analysis. A second-order factor analysis yielded four factors which explain about 66 of the total variance. These factors named "workaholism", "organisational-related involvement, commitment", "union commitment", and "work-related alienation" seem to be relative independent factors. No support for the existence of six separate foci could be found.
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