Exploring the Relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Work Meaningfulness

Drawing on theory from job design literature, along with business and society research, I rely on interviews conducted with 52 employees to examine how they interpret the corporate social performance of their workplace, what they consider sources of meaningfulness in their work, and what relationship exists between these phenomena. I use content analysis and adopt a comparative approach to consider whether there are discernible differences, of content or meaning, in the responses among the two groups that comprise this study: those working in a firm with high commitment to corporate social performance, versus those working in firms that do not have a similarly high commitment. These findings show how work meaningfulness, which constitutes an important aspect of individual thriving and well-being, and corporate social performance, which encompasses corporate citizenship, social responsibility and sustainability, inform each other. O Corporate social performance

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