An exploratory study of minority influence in organizational situation

ショウスウハ ノ コウドウ ヲ キテイスル ヨウイン ニカンスル タンサクテキ ケンキュウ ロウドウクミアイ ニオケル ショウスウハ

マツムラ, ケンイチ

Matsumura, Kenichi

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

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行動意図

minority

subjective social support

behavioral intention

In this study, labor union executives are defined as minority, and we will discuss that subjective social support of labor union executives has effect on their behavioral intention and actual behavior. It is very interested in minority influence in organizational situation. We discuss two factors in this study. One is minority’s subjective social support. The other is regular members’ evaluation of labor union that executives guess. We used the questionnaire to find the factors that are related to executives’ intention and behavior. A questionnaire was distributed to the union 29 executives. We divide executives into two groups by evaluation of subjective social support. It is found that executives that estimated subjective social support to be positive have higher intention than the other executives that estimated it negative. It is found that the subjective social support has same effect on executives’ actual behavior. Minority, who guess that regular member estimated labor union to be negative, cannot act. It is found that other executives’ evaluation of labor union that an executive guess has an effect on actual behavior.