EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: CONTRIBUTIONS TO CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Employee Volunteering and Social Capital



Employee Volunteering and Social Capital: Contributions to Corporate Social Responsibility

Employee volunteering has become a popular strategy for corporate community involvement, and further corporate citizen companies. Employee volunteering is portrayed as a human resource development strategy, social investment strategies and the sources of social capital. This study investigated the extent to which employees participate in voluntary work in the social capital and the three UK-based multinational corporations and their dynamics. We examine why the companies, communities, agents and employees involved in employee volunteering, the performance of their contribution to society; formal or informal networks, how to create, ownership and responsibility between the explicit and implicit actor the perceived benefits and performance of employees engaged in voluntary work.

We outline the way in which the generation and maintenance of social capital and employee volunteering program benefits. However, we note that social capital is dynamic; it depends on the formation and maintenance of environmental factors and those facing the relationship between employee volunteering requirements. We reveal the tension and close the socio-economic balance and the end of the volunteer staff to strengthen social capital as a source of employee volunteering suggestions. (Pierre, 2003, pp. 83-98)

Introduction

The traditional role of business in society as an economic unit in the past few decades has been challenged. More and more companies are faced with expectations, play a more active role in society. Their challenge is to act as a 'good corporate citizen, and become more actively involved in social welfare work of the community, they, therefore, in charity and volunteer work as a corporate citizen as an agent in the past inches. In addition, by industry in the United States of America (USA) reported that the 1998 survey week, the fastest growing corporate citizenship (CC) of the programmer's employees to participate in voluntary services. Employees participate in volunteer work is the ongoing coordination of efforts in the enterprise support and encourage them to participate in local community workers. Employee volunteering programs or employer-sponsored or employee-led by employers to recognize and support activities. They also take different forms, from informal to the formal composition of the options, including a one-time events, full-time long / short-term, team challenges, individual or team part-time tasks, guidance, counseling, portfolio structure of the global voluntary service exchange programs. It is said, companies use their own best assets - in the use of community organizations and community partnerships philanthropic investment - employees. They are increasingly developing and establishing as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate community involvement (CCI) of the strategy, employee volunteering program. Similarly, as in the community (EiTN) employees and the community (BITC) care program business network has been formed to promote business and community partnerships and volunteer work for the employees to share best practices. Doctors and scholars have also surged. Lukka, Luis and Higgins had tried to map out the terrain employee volunteering; Tuffrey and Logan to discuss development strategies for human resources ...