The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions

@article{Bryson2013TheEO,
  title={The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions},
  author={Alex Bryson and Erling Barth and Harald Dale-Olsen},
  journal={Industrial \& Labor Relations Review},
  year={2013},
  volume={66},
  pages={1011 - 989}
}
The authors explore the effects of organizational change on employee well-being using multivariate analyses of linked employer-employee data for Britain, with particular emphasis on whether unions moderate these effects. Nationally representative data consist of 13,500 employees in 1,238 workplaces. Organizational changes are associated with increased job-related anxiety and lower job satisfaction. The authors find that job-related anxiety is ameliorated when employees work in a unionized… 
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