Organizational commitment, corporate social responsibility and psychological capital among employees in manufacturing industry in China: Basis for CSR reinforcement model

International Journal of Research Studies in Management
CollabWritive Special Issue
2023 Volume 11 Issue 4

Available Online: 15 August 2023

Author/s:

Liu, Hongjuan
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines (37056374@qq.com)

Abstract:

This paper describes the impact of organizational commitment on corporate social responsibility and determines whether social responsibility affects employees’ psychological capital. Specifically, this study identifies organizational commitment, corporates social responsibility and psychological capital. This also investigates the significant relationship between organizational commitment social responsibility and analyzes the manufacturing companies; and social responsibility and employees’ psychological capital. This paper collects data based on in-depth interviews with Chinese manufacturing companies and through the distribution of questionnaires. Through a combination of literature analysis and empirical analysis, research literature on CSR was retrieved from the SSCI database using the authoritative WOS core database. After sorting and analyzing the existing literature, a framework for enhancing CSR was formed. The research results show that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational commitment and social responsibility. When organizational commitment is higher, companies are more motivated to fulfill their social responsibility, and there is also a significant positive correlation between social responsibility and psychological capital. The study shows that the more enterprises fulfill their social responsibility, the stronger employees’ perception of social responsibility and the stronger employees’ psychological capital, and the improvement of psychological capital will bring twice the effect with half the effort for enterprises’ social responsibility behavior. Finally, the study shows that employees’ psychological capital is significantly and positively correlated with corporate organizational commitment, indicating that the stronger the psychological capital, the more positive the employees’ organizational commitment performance, and the higher the corporate organizational commitment.

Keywords: organizational commitment, corporate social responsibility, psychological capital

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2023.1045

Cite this article:
Liu, H. (2023). Organizational commitment, corporate social responsibility and psychological capital among employees in manufacturing industry in China: Basis for CSR reinforcement model. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 11(4), 131-143. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2023.1045