| Job Satisfaction and Union Participation in China: Developing and Testing a Mediated Moderation Model |
Received:October 13, 2017 Revised:October 13, 2017 |
Key Words: Trade union, Job satisfaction, Labor relations climate, Union commitment, Union participation, China |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Enhua Hu | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | | Maolong Zhang* | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | | Hongmei Shan | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China | | Long Zhang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | | Yaqing Yue | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
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Abstract: |
| We developed a mediated moderation model to explain how job satisfaction and labor relations climate interactively affect union participation and whether union commitment mediates the interactive effects. Five hundred and eighty-five employees from enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian province of China were surveyed to verify the model. We found that job satisfaction was negatively related with union participation and union commitment, while labor relations climate moderated the relationship between job satisfaction and union participation such that the relationship was negative and stronger when employees perceived adverse rather than favorable labor relations climate. The study confirms that unions could provide employees with alternative work resources to cope with job dissatisfaction, even in a country where unions play a transmission belt role between employees and employers. |
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