CSR Research: Engaging Employees

When a company shared information about its corporate citizenship activity, prospective employees demonstrated a preference for the nonfinancial benefits of working for the company over the financial ones.

To attract employees that value corporate citizenship, companies should emphasize their own corporate citizenship values and efforts in their job descriptions.

When employees participate in a company’s corporate giving efforts, both society and the business benefit.

Longer breaks and more time off between shifts can lead to greater compliance with rules.

By explicitly describing and valuing team members’ unique contributions, inclusive leaders can improve the performance of diverse teams by creating greater team identity and reducing perceived status differences among team members.

Female employees who exhibit ineffective interpersonal behaviors are judged more negatively than their male coworkers who behave the same way.

Companies working to lessen their environmental impacts would do well to include sustainability training for leaders in their corporate citizenship strategies.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Women and non-White executives who engage in diversity-valuing behaviors tend to receive lower performance reviews than White male executives who do the same.

RESEARCH BRIEF - When managers feel pressure to meet analyst forecasts, workplace safety may suffer. Companies experience higher worker injury rates when managers are seeking to meet or just beat earnings expectations, as compared to those that miss or comfortably beat them.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Corporate citizenship practitioners working to increase employee engagement and wellness should stress the importance of consistency to company managers and their human resources colleagues.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Diverse teams outperform homogeneous groups, but only when they are structured for success.