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Relations industriellesIndustrial Relations

Unionization, Union Involvement, and the Performance ofGainsharing ProgramsDong-One Kim and Paula B. Voos

Volume 52, Number 2, 1997

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/051168arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/051168ar

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ISSN0034-379X (print)1703-8138 (digital)

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Cite this articleKim, D.-O. & Voos, P. B. (1997). Unionization, Union Involvement, and thePerformance of Gainsharing Programs. Relations industrielles / IndustrialRelations, 52(2), 304–332. https://doi.org/10.7202/051168ar

Article abstractThis study empirically examines the relationships between union status, unioninvolvement, and the performance of gain sharing programs. Using surveydata from 217 establishments in the U.S.A. and Canada, the authors evaluatethe predictions ofvarious competing theoretical perspectives: theagency/transaction cost approach, the monopoly model, the institutional voicemodel and a "two faces" model of labour organization. Ordered-probit and OLSregression results show that gain sharing programs with union involvement inprogram administration resulted in better perceived performance thanaverage programs in the nonunion sector. However, gain sharing programs inthe union sector without union involvement had worse outcomes than those inthe nonunion sector. These two divergent situations resulted in union statusitself having an insignificant relationship with program performance. Theseresults are most compatible with the "two faces" model.