FACTORS RELATED TO PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL INSTRUMENTALITY

This study was conducted four months after a publishing company's firs t labor union certification election. A union was defeated by a four-t o-one margin in one bargaining unit of the organization with 200 suppo rting-staff manual workers. A random sample of 450 employees, selected from a cross-section of all workers, was asked to complete a question naire designed to measure organizational instrumentality and work-rela ted variables. The results of a step-wise multiple regression based on 295 respondents indicated that organizational instrumentality was rel ated to employees' perception of job security, extrinsic job satisfact ion, organization-based self-esteem, low income, Japanese management s tyle, division in the organization, low desire to change, gender (fema le), and a low level of consideration.