“Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement: Enabling Employees to Employ More of Their Whole Selves at Work”

Author: Ante Glavas from Frontiers in Psychology

Ubunutu principles: Collaboration, Active Listening

Abstract

Research at the individual level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been growing rapidly. Yet we still lack a more complete understanding of why and how individuals (i.e., employees) are affected by CSR. This study contributes to that gap by exploring the relationship between CSR and employee engagement. Moreover, in order to address the problem of low levels of employee engagement in the workplace, CSR is proposed and tested as a pathway for engaging a significant part of the workforce. Building on engagement theory, a model is tested in which CSR enables employees to bring more of their whole selves to work, which results in employees being more engaged. 

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Cite: Front. Psychol., 31 May 2016
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 7 – 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00796