Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96561 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ESMT Working Paper No. 11-05 (R1)
Publisher: 
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin
Abstract: 
A study involving a Global 500 company finds that frontline employees' perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can contribute to their customer orientation (self-rated) and objective job performance (supervisor-rated) by activating social identification processes. Employees identify with the organization based in part on the extent to which CSR is supported by salient and job-relevant others both internal and external to the organization. Looking internally, employees identify with the organization to the extent that they perceive management to support CSR. Looking externally, employees can identify with customers (called employee-customer identification) to the extent they perceive customers to support the company's CSR. Both effects are enhanced when employees feel CSR is an important (versus non-important) part of their self-concept. Organizational identification directly drives job performance while employee-customer identification contributes to job performance through its effects on organizational identification and customer orientation.
Subjects: 
Corporate social responsibility
organizational identification
customer orientation
job performance
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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