TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Responsibility Climate as a Double-Edged Sword
T2 - How Employee-Perceived Social Responsibility Climate Shapes the Meaning of Their Voluntary Work?
AU - Yim, Frederick
AU - Fock, Henry
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study is supported by a Strategic Development Fund of Hong Kong Baptist University (Ref.: SDF011).
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Given the preponderance of corporate social responsibility initiatives across the corporate landscape and the correspondingly escalating demand for volunteers who participate in these initiatives, a need exists to better understand how to effectively motivate their voluntary engagement with tasks. Against this backdrop, this study argues the need to enhance their volunteer work meanings. We hypothesize that pride in volunteer work and volunteering as a calling are determinants of perceptions of the meaningfulness of volunteer work. In addition, we reveal that an organization's social responsibility climate (SRC) is a key moderator in these relationships. Interestingly, an SRC is a double-edged sword such that it strengthens the relationship between meaning and pride, yet weakens the relationship between meaning and calling. Findings are discussed, along with managerial implications and future research directions.
AB - Given the preponderance of corporate social responsibility initiatives across the corporate landscape and the correspondingly escalating demand for volunteers who participate in these initiatives, a need exists to better understand how to effectively motivate their voluntary engagement with tasks. Against this backdrop, this study argues the need to enhance their volunteer work meanings. We hypothesize that pride in volunteer work and volunteering as a calling are determinants of perceptions of the meaningfulness of volunteer work. In addition, we reveal that an organization's social responsibility climate (SRC) is a key moderator in these relationships. Interestingly, an SRC is a double-edged sword such that it strengthens the relationship between meaning and pride, yet weakens the relationship between meaning and calling. Findings are discussed, along with managerial implications and future research directions.
KW - Calling
KW - Climate
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Employee volunteerism
KW - Pride
KW - Volunteer work meaning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878897083&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-013-1712-4
DO - 10.1007/s10551-013-1712-4
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84878897083
SN - 0167-4544
VL - 114
SP - 665
EP - 674
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
IS - 4
ER -