An Empirical Research on the Relationship of the Corporate Social Responsibility to staffs and Employee Performance

Based on the pyramid of corporate social responsibility put forward by Carroll in 1991, the paper studies corporate social responsibility to staffs from the perspective of three dimensions: law responsibility, ethical responsibility and affection responsibility. This study uses literature analysis, survey research and expert brainstorming method to try to modify the corporate social responsibilities scale for enterprises in China. And the study attempts to explore the relationship between the dimensions of the corporation's social responsibilities to staffs and the dimensions of the employee performance. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) There are differences in each dimension of the corporation's social responsibilities towards its employees for different characteristics of enterprises.(2) There are only two dimensions of the corporation's social responsibilities to staffs have different degrees of influence on the employee performance. The legal responsibility and ethical responsibility are the forecast variables of employee performance, but the affection responsibility is not. (3) Both the industry and ownership of the business do influence the relationship between the corporation's social responsibilities to staffs and employee performance.