The Effects of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Perceptions on Work Involvement Self-Esteem and Job Performance

Abstract

The importance of ethics and social responsibility is emphasized with studies carried out in different fields with each passing day. In particular, the concepts of ethics and social responsibility, which are discussed with different dimensions within the scope of their impact on employee behavior, have come to the fore in the last twenty years due to their important effects on the creation of a good working environment and employee behavior in organizations. In this study, designed in this framework, the effects of the importance given to ethics and social responsibility on work involvement, self-esteem and job performances are investigated. In this context, the data obtained through questionnaires from 220 managers and employees in the manufacturing sector were used in the study conducted in Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Düzce, Bolu and Yalova provinces in Turkey. According to the findings obtained with the help of partial least square structural equation analysis; The increase in employees' perception of ethics and responsibility significantly increases their work involvement and self-esteem. It was observed that the job performance of the participants whose work involvement and self-esteem increased significantly increased. The findings also reveal that self-esteem has a quadratic effect as well as a direct effect on job performance, that is, an increase in self-esteem causes a significant increase in job performance proportional to the square of this increase