“Emotional Exhaustion and Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of a Port Logistics Organization”

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Panagiotis Reklitis
Anestis Fotiadis
Panagiotis Trivellas

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source of Publication

Strategic Innovative Marketing

Publication Date

5-26-2019

Abstract

In an era of economic crisis, and at the shadow of major ethical scandals in organizations, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy has emerged as a crucial element to reestablish the bond between corporations and all other stakeholders such as the local community, society and labor force. Crisis makes employees more stressful, since they work on unwarranted jobs causing them emotional exhaustion. This study aims to examine the association between employee emotional exhaustion and perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR). For this purpose, this study conducted a survey which examines if CSR (ethical, social, environmental dimensions) is negatively related to emotional exhaustion of employees on a sample of 93 employees of a port logistics management services organization. A structured questionnaire was developed in order to measure emotional exhaustion and employee perceptions about CSR activities. Building on the claim that employee perceptions of CSR activities may significantly related to emotional state, this paper examines three CSR dimensions (social, ethical and environmental) and emotional exhaustion. The results of this study indicate that environmental CSR exerts a negative significant effect on Emotional exhaustion. These finding will be of great value as they can contribute on understanding the impact of environmental CSR on emotional exhaustion with detrimental effects on employees’ productivity, job performance, and creativity. The importance of CSR environmental aspects and the relative strategies guiding CSR impact on emotional exhaustion affecting job-related outcomes are also discussed.

DOI Link

10.1007/978-3-030-16099-9_3

ISSN

2198-7246

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

First Page

17

Last Page

24

Disciplines

Business

Scopus ID

85098106294

Recommended Citation

Reklitis, Panagiotis; Fotiadis, Anestis; and Trivellas, Panagiotis, "“Emotional Exhaustion and Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of a Port Logistics Organization”" (2019). All Works. 23.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/23

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no