Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution

The current study investigates university as an entity of organisation to explore their corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. The unit of analysis in this study focused on employees in one of the research universities in Malaysia, namely Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The purpose of thi...

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Main Authors: Chan, Tak Jie, Mohd Hasan, Nurul Ain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/1/Corporate_Social_Responsibility_Practices_from_the_Employees_Perspective_A_Case_of_Malaysian_Higher_Education_Institution1.pdf
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description The current study investigates university as an entity of organisation to explore their corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. The unit of analysis in this study focused on employees in one of the research universities in Malaysia, namely Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The purpose of this study is to identify the level of employees’ understanding on CSR practices as well as their perception on selected elements of CSR that prominently practised in university. A quantitative (survey) method and multistage sampling were employed in this study, whereby questionnaires were distributed to 464 UPM staff (academic and non-academic), with only 285 valid respondents. The respondents were selected from Social Science cluster faculties and Science cluster faculties. This study focuses primarily on descriptive statistics. The findings show that respondents have a high level of understanding about CSR and the three (3) specific dimensions, namely human rights, community driven, and labour rights have shown to be the CSR practices that perceived prominent by the UPM staff. Further study to replicate the research in different university context (public or private) in Malaysian to explore more on CSR practices by respective universities was suggested. Future studies also recommended that relationships between CSR, job satisfaction, and corporate reputation need to be carried out in order to see the link between those variables.
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spelling upm-721282020-03-03T00:28:01Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/ Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution Chan, Tak Jie Mohd Hasan, Nurul Ain The current study investigates university as an entity of organisation to explore their corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. The unit of analysis in this study focused on employees in one of the research universities in Malaysia, namely Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The purpose of this study is to identify the level of employees’ understanding on CSR practices as well as their perception on selected elements of CSR that prominently practised in university. A quantitative (survey) method and multistage sampling were employed in this study, whereby questionnaires were distributed to 464 UPM staff (academic and non-academic), with only 285 valid respondents. The respondents were selected from Social Science cluster faculties and Science cluster faculties. This study focuses primarily on descriptive statistics. The findings show that respondents have a high level of understanding about CSR and the three (3) specific dimensions, namely human rights, community driven, and labour rights have shown to be the CSR practices that perceived prominent by the UPM staff. Further study to replicate the research in different university context (public or private) in Malaysian to explore more on CSR practices by respective universities was suggested. Future studies also recommended that relationships between CSR, job satisfaction, and corporate reputation need to be carried out in order to see the link between those variables. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2018-04 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/1/Corporate_Social_Responsibility_Practices_from_the_Employees_Perspective_A_Case_of_Malaysian_Higher_Education_Institution1.pdf Chan, Tak Jie and Mohd Hasan, Nurul Ain (2018) Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8 (4). 131 - 153. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/papers/detail/IJARBSS/4003 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i4/4003
spellingShingle Chan, Tak Jie
Mohd Hasan, Nurul Ain
Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title_full Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title_fullStr Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title_full_unstemmed Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title_short Corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of Malaysian higher education institution
title_sort corporate social responsibility practices from the employees' perspectives: a case of malaysian higher education institution
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/72128/1/Corporate_Social_Responsibility_Practices_from_the_Employees_Perspective_A_Case_of_Malaysian_Higher_Education_Institution1.pdf