A Study on Organizational Behavior Dimensions That Support Successful Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives

• Authors: Cristina Borca , Anca Draghici , Sorin Suciu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main objective of the paper is to highlight some dimensions related to a responsible behaviour of organizations and the social perception of these aspects. The underlying idea has started from the need to identify the factors of organizational communication that can inflence the social perception of the dimensions of the social responsibility of organizations. The proposed goals were achieved through the longitudinal analysis of statistical data, obtained from four opinion polls conducted during the period 2002–2015 within the organization chosen for the applied research. The dimensions considered for the investigation were image and reputation of the organization; the level of information; awareness of the contribution to environmental issues; aspects of crisis management (incident resolution); confience in the way organizations work; customer satisfaction. All these aspects, characterized by appropriately defied indicators have been constituted as variables of the customer perception equation. Based on the evolution of the dimensions, various conclusions could be generated that highlight the customer’s perception of the organization and its social responsibility behaviour. Based on these fidings, it is necessary, as a fist step in the development of corporate social responsibility strategies, to conduct a customer perception analysis to assess stakeholder support for a variety of social or environmental issues and ultimately substantiate their decision to engage in those initiatives that matter most to them (key initiatives).

Keywords

EN

organizational behaviour, corporate social responsibility (CSR,) organizational communication, customer perception, stakeholder, public perception

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: International Journal of Synergy and Research
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7

Dates

published

2018

online

2019-03-02

Contributors

author

Cristina Borca

author

Anca Draghici

author

Sorin Suciu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/ijsr.2018.7.0.5-13