UNDERSTANDING UNION ADMINISTRATION.

The article focuses on labor union administration and offers management an understanding of labor relations in postwar United States. Unions are complex organizations with paid and unpaid officers who formulate union policy or influence members. Local officers conduct union-management relations under different conditions than do national officers who oversee the local officials. Leadership style depends on the union's developmental phase, for example a propagandist is effective when the union is organizing and creating dissatisfaction among workers. National union leaders can become entrenched in unionism bureaucracy. Statistics show the salary range of local, national, and international union officials, which suggests that influence and prestige are significant motivational factors.