Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

Low pay in the hotel and catering industry is generally held to create a culture of instrumentalism amongst many employees. Therefore, employees need a strong voice to articulate what workers need at their working conditions. This is where trade union can offer a respected representative at workp...

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Main Author: Enny Marlinah Manggor
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spelling my-ums-ep.178912017-12-28T22:36:30Z Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 2014 Enny Marlinah Manggor HD Industries. Land use. Labor Low pay in the hotel and catering industry is generally held to create a culture of instrumentalism amongst many employees. Therefore, employees need a strong voice to articulate what workers need at their working conditions. This is where trade union can offer a respected representative at workplace to negotiate with employer. However, recently, declining in union density worldwide seems to signify a weakening of their influence. This study attempt to investigate the relationship between employee needs affecting union participation, union role played that affect union participation and employer attitude towards union that affect employee decision to participate in union. A total of two hundred questionnaires were sent to the hotel. To analyses the relationship factors that influence union participation, multiple regression analysis was run. From the data analysis, two hypotheses was accepted, which are reason of employee belong to union and union role, while the other one hypotheses was rejected which is employer attitude towards union. 2014 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17891/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17891/1/Factors%20affecting%20union%20participation.pdf text en public masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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language English
topic HD Industries
Land use
Labor
spellingShingle HD Industries
Land use
Labor
Enny Marlinah Manggor
Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
description Low pay in the hotel and catering industry is generally held to create a culture of instrumentalism amongst many employees. Therefore, employees need a strong voice to articulate what workers need at their working conditions. This is where trade union can offer a respected representative at workplace to negotiate with employer. However, recently, declining in union density worldwide seems to signify a weakening of their influence. This study attempt to investigate the relationship between employee needs affecting union participation, union role played that affect union participation and employer attitude towards union that affect employee decision to participate in union. A total of two hundred questionnaires were sent to the hotel. To analyses the relationship factors that influence union participation, multiple regression analysis was run. From the data analysis, two hypotheses was accepted, which are reason of employee belong to union and union role, while the other one hypotheses was rejected which is employer attitude towards union.
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author Enny Marlinah Manggor
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title Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
title_short Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
title_full Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
title_fullStr Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
title_sort factors affecting union participation among employees at hotels in kota kinabalu, sabah
granting_institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17891/1/Factors%20affecting%20union%20participation.pdf
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