Corporate social responsibility and organizational commitment: the moderating role of individuals’ attitudes to CSR

Jonathan R. Crawshaw, Rolf van Dick, Yoshina Boodhoo

Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes ever more important for organizations. In times of corporate scandals and more governmental regulation on the one hand and a foreseeable shortage of highly qualified employees on the other, CSR is both a means to serve the wider society and to attract employees with a positive reputation and image. The aim of the present study was to determine whether CSR activities as perceived by employees indeed lead to more employee affective commitment and whether this would be moderated by employee differences in importance of CSR. The study differentiated two forms of CSR, namely corporate social responsibility directed towards individual employees (CSR-E) and directed towards the wider society (CSR-S). We surveyed 89 employees and found evidence for the predicted moderation and for both forms of CSR such that CSR-E and CSR-S and affective commitment were only positively related for those employees who evaluated CSR as important. Implications for recruitment and future research are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPolitische Psychologie
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jan 2014

Keywords

  • corporate social responsibility
  • affektives Commitment in Unternehmen
  • Bedeutung der CSR
  • moderation

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Corporate social responsibility and organizational commitment: the moderating role of individuals’ attitudes to CSR'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this