A Study On The Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility To Employee And Organizational Commitment

The rise of global social responsibility movement, the born of the SA8000 Standard and the introduction of the new "Labor Contract Law", corporate social responsibility has attracted lots of attention and we have called for companies to fulfill their social responsibility. So it is not only an urgent business problem, but also a proposition need to be solved by the management of scientific research.Previous researches on corporate social responsibility, which includes many shareholders of a company. However, in this essay, we only select employee as the stakeholder. And this part is also associated with human resource management researches. In the paper, we wonder if the enterprise to fulfill their social responsibility to employee, whether employee would make the feedback to it? If so, then what is kind of feedback and whether it is a business concern?In the review of the literature, this paper finds out the organization commitment can answer these questions. In the study of social responsibility and organizational commitment, we summarize the context of social responsibility, organizational commitment and the relationship between them. Among them, the literature of social responsibility includes some key definitions, performance, measurement, the evaluation index of corporate social responsibility to employee and the impact of company characteristics to social responsibility. And the literature of organizational commitment includes some definitions, dimensions, theoretical models, measurement methods and the impact of personal qualities to organizational commitment. The corporate social responsibility to employee includes salaries and benefits responsibility, work environment responsibility and training and development responsibility. Then we reference Ling Wen Quan et al (2001) to study the organizational commitment.By means of questionnaire survey, we obtain 309 pieces of questionnaires from employees in Hangzhou manufacture industry. Then we adopt Cronbach's a coefficient to analyze the reliability of the questionnaire and use CFA and EFA to analyze the validity. Then we adopt Independent-Sample T test and ANOVA to further research the characteristics of corporate affect corporate social responsibility to employee and demographic characteristics influence organizational commitment. Then we test the relationship between corporate social responsibility to employee and organizations based on correlate analyze and regression analyze.The empirical results supported most of our hypothesis. The main conclusions are showed as follows:(1) Firm size and nature don't affect corporate social responsibility commitment to employee significantly;(2) Corporate social responsibility to employee is consisted of salaries and benefits responsibility, work environment responsibility and training and development responsibility. And organization commitment includes affective commitment, normative commitment, ideal commitment, financial commitment and chance commitment. There is a significant positive correlation between corporate social responsibility to employee and organizational commitment;(3) In addition to salaries and benefits responsibility don't affect the normative commitment and work environment responsibility don't affect the opportunity commitment, the rest of the corporate social responsibility to employee are positive and significant predictors of organizational commitment. And training and development responsibility has the greatest explanation capacity on organizational commitment;(4) The impact of demographic characteristics on organizational commitment is significant.In addition, we use of cluster analyze based on the performance of corporate social responsibility to employee. And the sample is divided into three categories:high performance class, average performance class and low performance class. Then regression analyze is used in every class. By comparing regression equations, we sum up the specific relationship between corporate social responsibility to employee and organizational commitment, thus making targeted recommendations.The main idea of this study is the theory of corporate social responsibility could be applied to the human resource management practices. And we analyze the relationship between the corporate social responsibility to employee, which is consisted of salaries and benefits responsibility, work environment responsibility and training and development responsibility and organizational commitment. And this paper is a positive and useful exploration to enrich the theory of corporate social responsibility and expand the theory of organizational commitment.