Effects of member influence in an organization: Phenomenology versus organization structure.

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This study explores the relative tenability of 2 hypotheses concerning the effects on members' loyalty and activity of membership influence in an organization. The phenomenological hypothesis explains the effects in terms of the influence which the members perceive to exist; the structural hypothesis in terms of the influence that actually does exist. This is a secondary analysis of questionnaire data from a previous survey of 104 leagues of the League of Women Voters of the U. S. Significant interleague correlations are found between members' average perceptions of membership influence in their respective leagues and the average loyalty and activity of members in these leagues who are matched on perception of influence. These correlations cannot easily be explained phenomenologically since the members who differ in loyalty and activity report identical perceptions of membership influence. (34 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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