• Karsten Mueller, Kate Hattrup, Sven-Oliver Spiess, and Nick Lin-Hi.
• Department of Psychology, University of Osnabrück, Seminarstraße 20, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany. karsten.mueller@uni-osnabrueck.de
• J Appl Psychol. 2012 Nov 1; 97 (6): 1186-200.

AbstractThis study investigated the moderating effects of several Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) cultural value dimensions on the relationship between employees' perceptions of their organization's social responsibility and their affective organizational commitment. Based on data from a sample of 1,084 employees from 17 countries, results showed that perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) was positively related to employees' affective commitment (AC), after controlling for individual job satisfaction and gender as well as for nation-level differences in unemployment rates. In addition, several GLOBE value dimensions moderated the effects of CSR on AC. In particular, perceptions of CSR were more positively related to AC in cultures higher in humane orientation, institutional collectivism, ingroup collectivism, and future orientation and in cultures lower in power distance. Implications for future CSR research and cross-cultural human resources management are discussed.(c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved.

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