This was a study to determine if any of the differences in the areas of faculty governance and administration, salaries, job security and attitudes, which had been predicted in the literature, were observable in Florida community/junior colleges with and without collective bargaining. Five colleges with collective bargaining were matched on the basis of enrollment with five colleges without collective bargaining. Data were obtained from faculty handbooks and other documents provided by the colleges, the reports of the Florida Department of Education, and a survey of attitudes of faculty members at the institution. / An elective faculty council was found at four out of five of the non-collective bargaining colleges but only one of the collective bargaining colleges had an elective faculty council. At the collective bargaining colleges the union assumed all responsibilities in the area of faculty compensation. No generalizations regarding number and specificity of rules and regulations affecting faculty could be made. / Institutions without collective bargaining made greater gains in average salary and maximum salary in the period 1974-75 to 1978-79 than institutions with collective bargaining. Institutions without collective bargaining paid higher average and maximum salaries than did collective bargaining institutions; differences in minimum salaries were not statistically significant. No difference in average percentage of the budget spent on faculty salaries at the two groups of institutions was found. / Institutions with collective bargaining had more elaborate retrenchment plans in which individual rights were more clearly delineated than institutions without collective bargaining. All collective bargaining institutions had incorporated third party binding arbitration into their grievance procedures while none of the institutions without collective bargaining had done so. There appeared to be no real difference in rights of non-tenured faculty nor in utilization of part-time faculty at the two groups of institutions. / Faculty at collective bargaining schools reported a statistically significant lower measure of trust in the administration, lower rating of job satisfaction, lower rating of administrative openness and lower rating of the level of cooperation experienced now as compared to the past than did faculty at non-collective bargaining schools. No statistically significant differences between the two groups were found in expressed willingness to cooperate with the administration, nor in professionalism as measured by participation in professional societies and publications. / Recommendations for further study included a balanced assessment of differences among institutions with and without collective bargaining including areas outside the more narrow faculty concerns of the study and development of a model which could account for the variations in predicted differences compared to those observed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2458. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74472 |
| Contributors | HORN, LISTER WAYNE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 106 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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