TY - JOUR T1 - How Collective Is Union Citizenship Behavior? Assessing Individual and Coworker Antecedents JF - ILR Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Snape, Ed A1 - Tom Redman A1 - Julian Gould-Williams KW - group norms KW - solidarity KW - union citizenship behavior KW - union commitment KW - union participation AB -

Contributing to an emerging literature on solidarity or group-norm effects on union participation, the authors examine the extent to which union citizenship behavior (UCB) can be characterized as a collective phenomenon. Findings from studies of UK local government workers and teachers suggest that, for organization-focused behaviors, it is meaningful to think of collective or group-level UCB. Furthermore, group-level UCB had a significant positive association with individual-level UCB. There was no evidence that a greater consistency of citizenship within a unit was associated with a stronger relationship between collective and individual citizenship behaviors. These findings suggest that it is worthwhile to analyze UCB as a collective phenomenon, and the authors call for more work on the contextual antecedents of union citizenship and participation.

VL - 67 L2 - eng CP - 4 ER -