Identity, importance, and their roles in how corporate social responsibility affects workplace attitudes and behavior

Rolf van Dick, Jonathan R Crawshaw, Sandra Karpf, Sebastian Schuh, Xin-an Zhang

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Abstract

This paper contributes to growing research exploring employee attitudinal and behavioral reactions to organizational corporate social responsibility initiatives focused on environmental and social responsibility and sustainability. Drawing on social identity theory, we develop and test a moderated-mediation model where employees’ organizational identification mediates the relationship between their perceptions of organizational CSR initiatives and their work engagement and organizational citizenship behaviors, but this relationship is positive only when employees value the role of organizations in supporting environmental and social causes. In a survey of 250 employees from a variety of German organizations, across a range of industry sectors, our hypotheses were fully supported. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)159–169
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Business and Psychology
Volume35
Early online date22 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2020

Bibliographical note

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019

Keywords

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Organizational citizenship behavior
  • Organizational identification
  • Work engagement

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