CSR Research: Engaging Employees

RESEARCH BRIEF - Whether firms adopt LGBTQ+ supportive policies is influenced by a variety of factors including the geographical, political, and legal context.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Companies should be mindful of how they frame messaging around inclusion and diversity initiatives, as there are differences in how men and women respond to such messaging.

RESEARCH BRIEF - When company actions differ from stated values, employee engagement in CSR activities is negatively impacted—especially for employees that consider their work meaningful.

Employee knowledge of CSR activities, regardless of type, can lead to increased job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior, while also decreasing turnover intention.

Thinking about how to improve employee well-being? Think first about your employment practices.

When encouraged to change behavior, employees may be more motivated by straightforward, business-driven reasoning than stated prosocial motives such as saving the environment—which they may not view as genuine.

Want employees to be more engaged? Tell them why what they do is important.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Employees with favorable perceptions of their organization's corporate citizenship tend to experience higher levels of self-efficacy, hope, and optimism about work.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Positive organizational outcomes require both diversity in numbers and inclusion in practice.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Adopting and encouraging active measures to address race discrimination (seeking supervisor intervention, filing a formal HR complaint, etc.) may improve employee satisfaction with, trust in, and commitment to their employers.

RESEARCH BRIEF - The language used in job advertisements, along with representation of women in the recruitment process, promote gender equality in hiring.

RESEARCH BRIEF - Researchers tested several donation scenarios encouraging varying degrees of creativity...