SAFETY, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, AND PRODUCTIVITY

该项目将检查工人、工会和管理人员 利用统计数据应对职业安全危害 从1977年到1987年。最重要的是如何 工作条件影响劳资关系环境 而反过来，工作场所的生产力水平也是如此。1982年的 建造业普查及1987年建造业普查 制造商和建筑业将被用来检查 危险工作条件的影响和与危险有关的 生产力方面的劳资冲突。调查员的研究， 利用1977年的制造业普查，发现与危险相关 冲突，以显著降低该部门的生产率 经济舱。这种生产率的下降是最大的隐蔽性 职业安全和健康危害的成本。因果链 将职业暴露与生产率下降联系起来 使用五个统计数据源进行分析，包括 关于劳资关系质量的信息。两个国家的 队列，收入动态的小组研究和国家 纵向调查，将进行分析，以检查影响 工人流动率的危险条件。这项研究还将 考察工作条件的差异对员工的影响 对工会的态度，工会代表的发生率 选举，由渴望的管理层制定的战略 剩余的非工会和工会代表制的结果 选举。这些分析的数据集将包括1984年 哈里斯民意调查，工人对工会代表的态度 1977-87全国劳资关系委员会工会选举结果 数据，以及1978-83年世界大型企业联合会对企业的调查 人事政策和对工会组织工作的回应。

This project will examine worker, labor union, and management responses to occupational safety hazards using statistical data from 1977 through 1987. The pimary emphasis will be on how working conditions influence the industrial relations environment and, in turn, the level of productivity in the workplace. The 1982 Census of Construction Industries and the 1987 Censuses of Manufactures and Construction Industries will be used to examine the influence of hazardous working conditions and hazard-related industrial conflict on productivity. Research by the investigator, using the 1977 Census of Manufactures, found hazard-related conflict to significantly reduce productivity in that sector of the economy. This decrease in productivity is the greatest hidden cost of occupational safety and health hazards. The causal chain linking occupational exposures to decreased productivity will be analyzed using five statistical data sources that include information on the quality of industrial relations. Two national cohorts, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Survey, will be analyzed to examine the influence of hazardous conditions on worker turnover. The study will also examine how differences in working conditions influence worker attitudes towards unions, the incidence of union representation elections, the strategies developed by management desirous of remaining nonunion, and the outcomes of union representation elections. Data sets for these analyses will include the 1984 Harris Poll of worker attitudes towards union representation, the 1977-87 National Labor Relations Board union election outcomes data, and the 1978-83 Conference Board surveys of corporate personnel policies and responses to union organizing efforts.