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The Power of Labor to Grieve: The Impact of the Workplace, Labor Market, and Power-Dependence on Employee Grievance Filing

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  • Samuel Bacharach
  • Peter Bamberger

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The authors examine a model of employee grievance activity that encompasses both workplace and labor market determinants and attempts to reconcile inconsistent findings in the literature by taking into account the possible moderating effects of labor power. A multi-level analysis of data from 1996–97 on 1,383 blue-collar workers suggests that labor market factors influenced grievance activity much less directly than workplace characteristics did, and that the nature of these influences was more complex than has previously been hypothesized. Specifically, consistent with power-dependence theory, the authors find that the direct effects of at least one labor market factor, the wage premium, were likely to be contingent on labor power, and that the labor market itself may have moderated the effects of certain workplace factors on employee grievance filing in a manner consistent with efficiency wage theory.

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  • Samuel Bacharach & Peter Bamberger, 2004. "The Power of Labor to Grieve: The Impact of the Workplace, Labor Market, and Power-Dependence on Employee Grievance Filing," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 57(4), pages 518-539, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:57:y:2004:i:4:p:518-539
    DOI: 10.1177/001979390405700403
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    1. Brian Klaas & Anna-Katherine Ward, 2015. "Formal, Justice-Oriented Voice in the Nonunion Firm: Who Speaks Up and When?," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(2), pages 321-356, April.
    2. Andy Charlwood & Anna Pollert, 2014. "Informal Employment Dispute Resolution among Low-Wage Non-Union Workers: Does Managerially Initiated Workplace Voice Enhance Equity and Efficiency?," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 52(2), pages 359-386, June.

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