Using a sample of 429 employees in a large, unionized public utility company in Canada, we examine the incentive effects of a final-earnings pension plan on employees' job satisfaction. Contrary to rational economic expectations, job satisfaction is found negatively related to expected accruals...

This study helps clarify mixed support for Hirschman's exit-voice-loyalty framework by arguing that loyalty, or feelings of attachment to the organization, and voice are not one-dimensional constructs. Based on data gathered from a survey of employees working with a large Canadian utility...

Unlike federal regulation in the United States, variation in provincial regulation across Canada provides a natural laboratory to examine the impact of public policy on pension coverage. Using data from a nationally representative sample of private sector workers in Canada in 1994, we find that...

Theory and research surrounding employee voice in organizations have often treated high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) as substitutes for unions. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in the field of industrial relations, specifically the collective voice/institutional response model of...

This article brings up to date. the experience of the National Railroad Adjustment Board in the performance of its function of arbitrating disputes arising under agreements between the carriers and the operating employees' unions. Since the various studies made about ten years ago (one of which...

The authors review world experience with creating transitional jobs through public work relief, public service employment, and subsidized private employment. They argue that work relief is a critical component of any structural adjustment program, so long as the work relief projects are...

Perceiving all of the world's economies as pursuing each other up an industrial staircase allows foresight into which industries in which nations are most likely to face increasing competition from those seeking a breakthrough in the race for world markets. The U.S. steel industry illustrates...

Grave difficulties are frequently encountered when it becomes necessary, because of business mergers, to pool two or more previously separate groups of employees under a single seniority system. Because of the importance of seniority in the transportation industries, these difficulties have been...