Investigating How Corporate Social Responsibility Affects Employees’ Thriving at Work: A Social Exchange Perspective

Xue Han (), Qinyi Li and Xinyi Wang
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Xue Han: School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Qinyi Li: School of Accounting, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Xinyi Wang: International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) helps enterprises achieve sustainable development in the current competitive environment. Premised on social exchange theory, we argue that CSR also contributes to employees’ sustainable development, which can be gauged by thriving at work. We conducted a three-wave questionnaire survey to examine our hypothesized model. We found that employees’ perceived CSR helps employees to build a good social exchange with their company, which in turn contributes to enhanced thriving at work. Further, for employees with higher levels of trait gratitude, CSR is more likely to facilitate their social exchange and subsequent thriving at work. Our findings enrich the nomological network of CSR and thriving, and provide insights for organizations to build a thriving and sustainable workforce.

Keywords: CSR; thriving at work; trait gratitude; social exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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