Author(s): Tripathi DK, Mahmood AS, Anand VP
Purpose: The current study aims at understanding socially responsible behaviour of employees and understanding it’s impact performance as well as the relationship with whether an employee belongs to a public or private sector. Impact of other demographic variables has also been studied
Design/Methodology: Borrowing from social identity theory theoretical model is proposed and tested on 154 employees from Indian organizations
Findings: Employee performance is influenced by socially responsible behaviour that mediates the impact of employment in public or private sector organizations on performance.
Practical & Social Implications: Practices that evoke socially responsible behavior from employees can be benchmarked by organizations for better performance. It can also help categorize employees in terms of desired social behaviour.
Originality/value: Conclusions give a new perspective to individual social responsibility and the effect this has on performance. It provides a demographic breakup of impact on socially responsible employee behaviour on parameters that have not been explored before