LA RESPONSABILITÉ SOCIÉTALE ET L’ÉTHIQUE COMME VECTEURS DE L’ENGAGEMENT ORGANISATIONNEL

Abstract

Organizational commitment is a key concept in the field of management. In addition, the corporate social responsibility and organizational ethics are attracting more and more interest from researchers. The mechanisms linking these concepts are still little explored. The objectives of this article are 1) to describe the research linking organizational commitment and social responsibility or business ethics and 2) to propose an operational framework. From a descriptive meta-analysis, more than 20 years of research on organizational commitment from the perspective of corporate social responsibility and organizational ethics are summarized. The analysis of 26 references from 16 different journals shows that CSR and organizational ethics have a positive effect on organizational commitment. An operational framework is proposed to provide practitioners and researchers concrete support to develop a CSR strategy.