Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impact of employees’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on their organizational attitudes and behaviors. To achieve this, it adopts an instrumental perspective on CSR, aiming to measure the influence of CSR perception on employees’ organizational engagement. This approach incorporates the four dimensions of economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities as identified by Carroll. The primary objective is to highlight the relationship between employees’ perceptions of different dimensions of CSR and their organizational engagement, considering socially responsible human resource management (HRM) practices as an intermediate variable. The sample consists of 358 individuals from ten Moroccan companies. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The empirical results underscore the direct influence of the economic and ethical responsibility dimensions on socially responsible HRM practices. Furthermore, partial mediation was observed between these two dimensions of CSR and employees’ organizational engagement in our structural model. These findings indicate that both of these forms of responsibility exert both direct and indirect influence on employees’ organizational engagement. However, the legal and philanthropic responsibility dimensions did not demonstrate a significant influence.