TY - JOUR
T1 - Corporate social responsibility and employee engagement: The moderating role of CSR-specific relative autonomy and individualism
AU - Rupp, Deborah E.
AU - Kim, Tae-Yeol
AU - Nadisic, Thierry
AU - Shao, Ruodan
AU - Skarlicki, Daniel P.
AU - Paddock, Elizabeth Layne
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Growing evidence suggests that employees' perceptions of their employer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) relate positively to employee work engagement. This is an important connection given the impact of work engagement on both employee health and organizational productivity, as well as the importance of CSR for society. In this paper, however, we argue that the CSR perceptions-work engagement relationship cannot be assumed to be universal and that both individual and contextual factors will place meaningful boundary conditions on this effect. Integrating motivation and cross-cultural theories, we propose that the relationship between employees' CSR perceptions and their work engagement will be stronger among employees who perceive higher CSR-specific relative autonomy (i.e., employees' contextualized motivation for complying with, advocating for, and/or participating in CSR activities) and that this amplification effect will be stronger among employees who are higher on individualism (studied at the individual-level of analysis). These predictions were mostly supported among a sample of 673 working adults from five different regions (Canada, China [mainland], France, Hong Kong, and Singapore) and while controlling for first-party justice perceptions, moral identity, employee demographics, and employer/nation characteristics. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
AB - Growing evidence suggests that employees' perceptions of their employer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) relate positively to employee work engagement. This is an important connection given the impact of work engagement on both employee health and organizational productivity, as well as the importance of CSR for society. In this paper, however, we argue that the CSR perceptions-work engagement relationship cannot be assumed to be universal and that both individual and contextual factors will place meaningful boundary conditions on this effect. Integrating motivation and cross-cultural theories, we propose that the relationship between employees' CSR perceptions and their work engagement will be stronger among employees who perceive higher CSR-specific relative autonomy (i.e., employees' contextualized motivation for complying with, advocating for, and/or participating in CSR activities) and that this amplification effect will be stronger among employees who are higher on individualism (studied at the individual-level of analysis). These predictions were mostly supported among a sample of 673 working adults from five different regions (Canada, China [mainland], France, Hong Kong, and Singapore) and while controlling for first-party justice perceptions, moral identity, employee demographics, and employer/nation characteristics. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
KW - autonomy
KW - corporate social responsibility
KW - individualism
KW - organizational justice
KW - self-determination
KW - work engagement
KW - autonomy
KW - corporate social responsibility
KW - individualism
KW - organizational justice
KW - self-determination
KW - work engagement
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U2 - 10.1002/job.2282
DO - 10.1002/job.2282
M3 - Journal
SN - 0894-3796
VL - 39
SP - 559
EP - 579
JO - Journal of Organizational Behavior
JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior
IS - 5
ER -