Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees’ Affective Commitment: A Moderated Mediation Study

Khadija Bouraoui, Sonia Bensemmane and Marc Ohana
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Khadija Bouraoui: Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes en Gestion, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, 64012 Pau, France
Sonia Bensemmane: Centre de Recherche et d’Etudes en Gestion, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, 64012 Pau, France
Marc Ohana: CSR Centre of Excellence, Kedge Business School Bordeaux, 33405 Talence, France

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-16

Abstract: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has mainly been studied at a macro level through its impact on the financial performance of the company. However, individuals’ perceptions of CSR influence various attitudes and behaviors at work, including employees’ affective commitment. Whereas the relationship between perceptions of CSR and employees’ affective commitment has already been shown in the literature, less is known about its underlying mechanisms. This research seeks to specifically explain this relationship in order to understand how perceptions of CSR influence individuals’ affective commitment at work. We present two studies (Study 1, N = 181; Study 2, N = 145) to test a theoretical model that introduces person-organization fit (PO fit) as a mediator of this relationship and the need to belong as a moderator of the relationship between CSR and PO fit. The results of the moderated mediation model (using PLS-SEM) are developed and a discussion is provided.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility (CSR); affective commitment; person-organization fit (PO fit); the need to belong (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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