The effect of experience on faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining: A cross-temporal analysis

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Rassuli ◽  
Ahmad Karim ◽  
Raj Roy
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Faculty Attitudes

Attitudes of Faculty toward Unionization

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 995-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Rodriguez ◽  
John Rearden
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Faculty Attitudes ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Faculty Perception ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Midwestern University

A scale to measure attitudes of university faculty toward collective bargaining was developed by selecting items along a continuum of favorability toward unions. 262 faculty (49%) at a public midwestern university where collective bargaining has been in effect responded to the scale. The scale readily discriminated between union members and nonmembers and between faculty who did or did not sign a petition to decertify the union. Faculty in fine arts, education, and the library had significantly more favorable attitudes toward unionization. Exploratory factor analysis of the items in the scale produced three interpretable factors: perceived union benefits to faculty, faculty dissonance over the issue of unionization vs professionalism, and faculty perception of union abuse of power. The scale can be used in the study of faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining in higher education.

Twitter Usage Using Common Reference to Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Jianyuan Ni ◽  
Monica L. Bellon-Harn ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yueqing Li ◽  
Vinaya Manchaiah
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
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Objective The objective of the study was to examine specific patterns of Twitter usage using common reference to tinnitus. Method The study used cross-sectional analysis of data generated from Twitter data. Twitter content, language, reach, users, accounts, temporal trends, and social networks were examined. Results Around 70,000 tweets were identified and analyzed from May to October 2018. Of the 100 most active Twitter accounts, organizations owned 52%, individuals owned 44%, and 4% of the accounts were unknown. Commercial/for-profit and nonprofit organizations were the most common organization account owners (i.e., 26% and 16%, respectively). Seven unique tweets were identified with a reach of over 400 Twitter users. The greatest reach exceeded 2,000 users. Temporal analysis identified retweet outliers (> 200 retweets per hour) that corresponded to a widely publicized event involving the response of a Twitter user to another user's joke. Content analysis indicated that Twitter is a platform that primarily functions to advocate, share personal experiences, or share information about management of tinnitus rather than to provide social support and build relationships. Conclusions Twitter accounts owned by organizations outnumbered individual accounts, and commercial/for-profit user accounts were the most frequently active organization account type. Analyses of social media use can be helpful in discovering issues of interest to the tinnitus community as well as determining which users and organizations are dominating social network conversations.

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