The Buffer Effect of CSR Participation of Employee between Role-Overload and Physical-Burnout

Abstract

Recently, many researchers have studied about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)‟s positive effects in organizational behavior view. The studies examine function of CSR to promote the positive organizational behavioral variables such as organizational commitment, employee attitude, and organization loyalty. Although much research has been conducted to explore how CSR influences organizational behavioral variables, research attention to its effects on the process that occur in organizational energy exchange. We focus on the process that employee who has overloaded role feels exhausted and the effect of the CSR participation on that relationship. The objectives of this research are to examine a) the positive relationship between Role-overload and Physical-burnout and b) the moderating effect of CSR participation. To examine the research questions, we use the hierarchical regression. Sample Data for this study were collected from 5 firms that perform CSR activities in Korea and there are 315 respondents from the firms. The results show that Role-overload has positive effect on Physical-burnout, and CSR participation has significant buffer effect on the relationship between Role-overload and Physical-burnout. The contributions of this manuscript are: a) extension of positive effects of CSR, b) identifying the possibility of the use of CSR participation as the buffer reducing the wasted energy.