Theorizing collective action—Instrumental collectivism as a key concept for explaining workplace collective action

IF 2.4 3区 管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Bjarke Refslund
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Abstract

This article addresses workplace collective action. Through a discussion of instrumental and norm‐driven motivations for workers' collective action, it is argued that most workers are driven mainly by instrumental motivations—meaning, that they aim to achieve certain outcomes. Consequently, the theoretical concept of instrumental collectivism from Alan Fox is utilized to explain and understand collective action. Finally, six conditions facilitating workplace collective action, including an ideational and hence constructivist element, are identified and discussed providing a more nuanced theoretical framework of workers' collective action that allows for workers' agency and refutes that instrumentalism per se leads to individualized behavior.
集体行动理论化--工具性集体主义是解释工作场所集体行动的关键概念
本文探讨工作场所的集体行动。通过对工人集体行动的工具性动机和规范性动机的讨论,本文认为,大多数工人主要受工具性动机的驱使--也就是说,他们的目标是实现某些结果。因此,阿兰-福克斯(Alan Fox)提出的工具集体主义理论概念被用来解释和理解集体行动。最后,确定并讨论了促进工作场所集体行动的六个条件,包括意识形态和建构主义因素,为工人的集体行动提供了一个更加细致入微的理论框架,允许工人发挥能动性,并驳斥了工具主义本身会导致个人化行为的观点。
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Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
CiteScore
4.40
自引率
8.70%
发文量
25
期刊介绍: Corporate restructuring and downsizing, the changing employment relationship in union and nonunion settings, high performance work systems, the demographics of the workplace, and the impact of globalization on national labor markets - these are just some of the major issues covered in Industrial Relations. The journal offers an invaluable international perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor and employment. It is the only journal in its field with this multidisciplinary focus on the implications of change for business, government and workers.
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