A proposed framework of corporate social responsibility dimensions and employees' unethical pro-organizational behaviour: Evidence from Chinese SMES.

Abstract

Employees' unethical pro-organizational behaviour is an organizational behaviour that is gradually being noticed. Such behaviour, although for the benefit of the organization, may have potential and long-term costs to the organization. Corporate social responsibility has been identified as an important influence on unethical pro-organizational behaviour, but there is a lack of exploration of the dimensional level. This conceptual paper proposes a study which aims to investigate the influence of corporate social responsibility stakeholder dimensions on employees' unethical pro-organizational behaviours in the context of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises, these stakeholder dimensions include the environment, community, customer, shareholder, supplier and employee. Judgmental sampling is recommended to select target enterprises and respondents from multiple industries. This study is the first to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility dimensions and unethical pro-organizational behaviour, adding to the research literature on the consequences of corporate social responsibility and the antecedents of unethical pro- organizational behaviour, and has important implications for organizations to engage in corporate social responsibility practices.