Employing Disadvantaged People: Corporate Social Responsibility Action of Companies

Alic Bîrcă and Christiana Brigitte Sandu ()
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Alic Bîrcă: Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova
Christiana Brigitte Sandu: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Chapter Chapter 19 in Europe in the New World Economy: Opportunities and Challenges, 2024, pp 329-342 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the labour market, there are several categories of labour force, considered disadvantaged, who have more difficulties in finding a job. As a result, many of these people are unemployed for a long time. In this chapter we aimed to assess the willingness of companies to employ disadvantaged people as a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) action. In order to achieve the objective, we developed a questionnaire in which we asked the respondent organisations to assess their level of satisfaction with disadvantaged people working in the organisation, as well as their willingness to hire new disadvantaged people in the future. The survey covered 188 enterprises, including 83 large enterprises and 105 medium-sized enterprises. Likert scales from ‘1’ to ‘5’ were used to assess the level of satisfaction of organisations with the work done by disadvantaged people and their willingness to hire new disadvantaged people. Data processing was carried out in SPSS and several statistical methods were applied: Student’s test (both for independent and paired samples) and correlation analysis (Pearson correlation coefficient). The results show that organisations rate the level of satisfaction with disadvantaged people working in them more or less highly. Also, the intention of organisations to employ disadvantaged people is assessed differently from one category to another.

Keywords: Disadvantaged people; Corporate Social Responsibility; Labour market; Employment of disadvantaged people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71329-3_19

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