دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مسئولیت اجتماعی شرکتی و مطالبات کارمند: نفوذ اجتماعی - تیلور و فرانسیس 2017

ABSTRACT

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an increasingly important topic in management, especially in organizational behavior field across the globe; however, this concept is still in its infancy in Pakistan. In this study, we examined the effect of employees’ perceptions about CSR on their Desire to have a Significant Impact through Work (DSIW). We suggested the serial mediation of organizational identification and organizational pride in this relationship. The time-lag data of middle managers were collected from a well-known Pakistani firm that is actively engaged in CSR. The data consist of 187 observations and were analyzed using structural equation modeling in AMOS software. The results show that CSR positively affects employees’ identification that in turn make employees proud of their organizational membership and finally pride leads to employees’ DSIW. The study contributes in CSR and organizational behavior literature and provides managerial implication to enhance the positive psychological state of employees.

Limitations and research direction

The study adopted a cross-sectional research design with a smaller data set from a single organization, lacking in the generalization of the results. We recommend the replication of this study with larger longitudinal data set from different companies to confirm the place of organizational pride to establish a causal relationship. We did not include any moderator that provides the opportunity to the researchers to investigate the boundary conditions that can have a potential impact on this relationship. As we missed cultural dimensions in our study, the future studies can test the impact of cultural dimensions for making cross-regional comparisons.

The present study found the positive correlation of CSR with employee’s DSIW. Social learning theory and social influence explain the mechanism how employees tend to imitate the organization’s actions in their behavior. The employees who perceive CSR initiatives positively are strongly identified with the company and consequently feel a sense of pride due to the membership. This pride, in turn, generates the employee’s desire to influence the others. The study highlights the importance of CSR activities on the employees’ positive psychological states and provides the managerial implication to reinforce these activities to gain a competitive edge and better society.