Bridging corporate social responsibility and compassion at work: Relations to organizational justice and affective organizational commitment

Career Development International

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-72

  Moon, Tae Won ^a   Hur, Won Moo ^b   Ko, Sung Hoon ^a   Kim, Jae Woo ^c   Yoon, Sung Won ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective organizational commitment; Compassion; Employee perceptions of CSR; Organizational justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898428547     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CDI-05-2013-0060     Document Type: Article

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