Integrated Actions for Decrease and/or Elimination of Mobbing as a Psychosocial Stressor in the Organizations Accessing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

The purpose of this research is, having examined the expression of mobbing as a psychosocial factor in organisations accessing or implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR), to form integrated actions for the decrease and/or elimination of the phenomenon. Companies with CSR, while addressing issues of well-being of employees as an interested party, ethics and human rights, must face up to their responsibilities to prevent the employees from facing psychosocial stressors caused by mobbing and bullying, while both collaborating with organised employees' structures and accepting employees' reports on destructive relationships in working environment and taking them into consideration. Having created the instrument, an empirical research was completed conducting a survey among 1,512 respondents from 34 organisations in Lithuania that declared or did not declare CSR. It was discovered that CSR has a significant influence on the employees' approach to organisation's products, promotes greater confidence and loyalty and leads to greater personal initiative while completing tasks. However, comparing the organisations which declared and did not declare CSR, approval of the statements about psychosocial well-being is more significant in the latter ones, while in the organisations which declared CSR, orientation towards external interested subjects was revealed, and the systematic work organisation advantages possessed are not used for ensuring functional relationships between employees and employee safety against psychosocial stressors.

Corporate social responsibility and internal stakeholders’ health and well-being in Europe: a systematic descriptive review

“…Sixteen studies published between 2007 and 2019 fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Three were conducted in Spain ( Ruiz-Palomino et al , 2011 ; Celma et al , 2018 ; Pérez et al, 2018 ), two in the UK ( Brammer et al , 2007 ; Raub and Blunschi, 2014 ), two in Belgium ( De Roeck et al , 2014 ; Closon et al , 2015 ), two in Poland ( Kowal and Roztocki, 2015 ; Zientara et al , 2015 ), two in Greece ( Vlachos et al , 2013 ; Tsourvakas and Yfantidou, 2018 ) and one in each of Portugal ( Gaudencio et al , 2017 ), Cyprus ( Hadjimanolis and Boustras, 2013 ), Lithuania ( Vveinhardt et al , 2017 ) and the Netherlands ( Wisse et al , 2018 ). One study was carried out in more than one European country ( Jain et al , 2011 ).…”

“…Vveinhardt et al analysed data from companies that did and did not declare CSR ( n = 772), finding that CSR helped to increase employees’ confidence and loyalty towards the organization among companies that declared CSR ( Vveinhardt et al , 2017 ).…”

Workplace Mobbing in Polish and Lithuanian Organisations with Regard to Corporate Social Responsibility

“…For example, Poland is five times bigger geographically with a population of 38.5 million people, while Lithuania only has around three million people [73]. The research instrument developed for revealing trends regarding workplace mobbing in Polish and Lithuanian organisations with regard to corporate social responsibility was based on the items provided in the questionnaire entitled "Mobbing as a Psychosocial Stressor in the Organisations Accessing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility-MOB-CSR" [74,75]. The questionnaire was adapted through preparing it in both Polish and English languages.…”

Mobbing and corporate social responsibility: does the status of the organisation guarantee employee wellbeing and intentions to stay in the job?

“…The survey was conducted selecting the questionnaire validated in various Lithuanian samples "Mobbing as a Psychosocial Stressor in the Organizations Accessing and Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility -MOB-CSR" questionnaire (Vveinhardt & Andriukaitienė, 2015;Vveinhardt et al, 2017). This questionnaire was modified and adapted by preparing it in Polish and English languages (more detailed in: Vveinhardt & Sroka, 2020).…”

“…Given the aforementioned, and due to the fact that the relationship between mobbing and the CSR has not received considerable attention from management scholars (Carbo, 2009;Vveinhardt et al, 2017), the authors of this paper seek to fill in a gap in management literature through addressing the relationship between the previously mentioned two variables in Polish and Lithuanian organizations.…”