COMPARING UNION AND NONUNION STAFF PERCEPTIONS OF THE HIGHER-EDUCATION WORK-ENVIRONMENT

Evidence of substantial growth in unionization among university nonins tructional staff over the past 20 years (Hurd and Woodhead, 1987) and the emergence of a quality movement in higher education linking employ ee attitudes toward the work environment with increased productivity p oint to the need for additional research into union and nonunion staff perceptions of the work environment. This paper describes a conceptua lly oriented, exploratory study of the university work environment as perceived and defined by union and nonunion noninstructional staff.