Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Prospective Employment Decisions: Exploring Social Change Through College Students

AbstractThe present study has two goals. First, this study examines whether students value working for a socially responsible employer, and second, it explores how social justice experiences in college and/or social justice attitudes and beliefs may predict students’ sensitivity to prospective employer social responsibility. In addition to these two goals, the study validates a new Sensitivity to Prospective Employer Social Responsibility (SPESR) Scale, used to help understand how undergraduate students perceive their values related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) impact their prospective employment decisions. Results indicate that students who participated in the study overall positively endorsed a degree of sensitivity to prospective employer social responsibility. Furthermore, taking a college social justice course, participating in extracurricular volunteering, and having a greater commitment to social justice, greater social justice self-efficacy, and greater plans for future involvement in ...