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. 2019 May 16;16(10):1731.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph16101731.

Employees' Perceptions of CSR, Work Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Effects of Organizational Justice

Tahir Farid  1 , Sadaf Iqbal  2 , Jianhong Ma  3 , Sandra Castro-González  4 , Amira Khattak  5 , Muhammad Khalil Khan  6
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Employees' Perceptions of CSR, Work Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Effects of Organizational Justice

Tahir Farid et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the individual level has emerged as an important field of research. However, a more comprehensive understanding of how CSR affects employee work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is still lacking. Based on social exchange theory, we examine the effects of employees' perceptions of CSR on OCB and work engagement as well as the mediating mechanism of distributive and procedural justice, based on data collected from 350 employees working in the banking sector of Pakistan. Our study suggests that employees' perceptions of CSR positively predict OCB and work engagement, and that work engagement is positively related to OCB. Both distributive and procedural justice positively mediate the effects of employees' perceptions of CSR on OCB and work engagement.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; distributive justice; employees’ perceptions; organizational citizenship behavior; procedural justice; work engagement.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Proposed framework of the study. CSR, corporate social responsibility; OCB, organizational citizenship behavior.
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