The interrelated roles of corporate social responsibility and stress in predicting job outcomes

Abstract

Despite much existing research on corporate social responsibility (CSR), there have been no studies, to date, on stress symptoms in models of employee CSR perceptions and their consequences. This study’s results showed that CSR perceptions and stress symptoms were negatively correlated, and inter-related in their effects on other variables. CSR perceptions also predicted depression symptoms and work engagement directly, and indirectly through job satisfaction and organizational commitment. CSR perceptions also predicted turnover intentions indirectly through the same variables. Interpretations, implications, and limitations of these results were discussed. Overall, this study augments the CSR literature by exploring CSR perceptions in the context of well-being variables.

Keywords:

• Corporate social responsibility
• stress
• depression
• work engagement
• turnover intentions