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21 Lab. Stud. J. 19 (1996-1997)
Tailoring Union-Wide Innovations to Local Conditions: The Case of Member Assistance Program Implementation in the Airline Industry

handle is hein.journals/labstuj21 and id is 255 raw text is: Tailoring Union-Wide Innovations to Local Conditions: The Case of Member Assistance Program Implementation in the Airline Industry' Peter Bamberger and William Sonnenstuhl We examine the variation in local implementation of a union-wide Member Assistance Program in order to generate theoretical insight into the way in which union-wide innovations, once adopted at the national level, are implemented at the local level. Specifically, we focus on the factors that may account for local variation in the content of the imple- mented program. Our findings suggest that a number of factors relating to both institutional and strategic choice theories may best explain the variance in locals' program implementation. Index tenns: Airlines; Drugs and alcohol; Planning. The steady decline in the proportion of unionized employees in the United States (Barling et al., 1992) has spurred the interest of labor research- ers and union leaders in innovation (Heckscher, 1987; Kirkland, 1985; Peter Bamberger is a member of the faculty of industial engineering and management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, and is a senior research associate with the Smithers Institute, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Rela- tions, Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850. William Sonnenstuhl is an associate professor of Industrial and Labor Relations in the department of Extension and Public Service and organizational behavior and associate director of The Smithers Institute, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850. 1. The research upon which this study is based was supported by NIDA Grant # DA 06995-03. Both authors contributed equally in the writing of this paper, and their names appear in alphabetical order. The authors wish to thank Professor Samuel B. Bacharach, Director of the R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies at Cornell University for extensive comments and support. The authors also wish to thank Nathan Bennett, Bryan Booth, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Jennie Farley, Rick Hurd, Hanoch Jacobson, Bilha Mannheim, and Pam Tolbert for their comments.

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