A New Socio‐economic Order: Evidence About Employees' Values' Influence on Corporate Social Responsibility

Realization of a socio‐economic order depends crucially on human values, including employees' personal values. The main purpose of this article is a requisitely holistic examination of the influence of employees' personal values on their attitudes towards economic, environmental and social aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Schwartz values survey questionnaire was used to measure employees' personal values and 25 statements referring to economic, environmental and social aspects of CSR. Results reveal that personal values most strongly influence employees' orientation regarding economic results, whereas the impact on their attitudes towards environmental and social concern is weaker. From all sub‐dimensions of values, only universalism values influence all three aspects of CSR, whereas five sub‐dimensions, also having significant impact, influence either one or both the other two aspects of CSR. Results help managers reflect upon the preferred patterns for development of enterprise employees' behaviors related with CSR. The sample includes 909 employees' responses from Slovenian enterprises, obtained in 2010 and 2011.