Employee-Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Employees Performance, within the Mining Sector

Abstract

Several researches have highlighted the responses of the employees towards the Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) within various business sectors,whereas few studies payed attention to the employees within the mining sector,this paper seeks to investigate the linkage between the employee-oriented CSR and their performance, basically the study focused on a sample of 300 employees of the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The relationship was tested by estimating a linear regression model, the study assessed the mediation mechanism of job satisfaction and organizational commitment.The empirical results showed an evidence of a positive relationship between Employee-oriented Corporate Social Responsibility and job performance, CSR practices towards employees would increase the employee satisfaction, which significantly predicts their job performance, therefore, Employee-oriented Corporate Social Responsibility indirectly impact job performance through mediating mechanism of job satisfaction and organizational commitment.The authors recommended the mining firms to initiate CSR initiatives that involve the workers participation.

Keywords: Mining Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resources Management,Job perfomance,Job satisfaction, Organizational Commitment.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-24-07

Publication date:August 31^st 2020