Human resource training and development as facilitators of corporate social responsibility

Human resource training and development as facilitators of corporate social responsibility. Recent corporate social respinsibility (CSR) literature has emphasized the impor-tance of labor practics in the CSR implementation. The research presentd in this paper explores how employees respond to human resource training and development of CSR in the context of a developing country. | Journal of Economics and Development Vol. 14, , December 2012, pp. 88 - 98 ISSN 1859 0020 Human Resource Training and Development as Facilitators of Corporate Social Responsibility Nguyen Ngoc Thang University of Economics and Business, Hanoi National University, Vietnam E-mail: thangnn@ Abstract Recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has emphasized the importance of labor practices in the CSR implementation. The research presented in this paper explores how employees respond to human resource training and development of CSR in the context of a developing country. Based on primary data collected via a self-administered survey in Vietnam, we provide evidence of the perceptions of employees of CSR and conclude that CSR can be an effective way for firms to maintain positive relationships with their employees. Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, human resource training and development, job satisfaction, Vietnam. Journal of Economics and Development 88 Vol. 14, , December 2012 1. Introduction human resource literature. In addition, the employee perception of CSR in the developing world is still fragmented and has not yet developed. The main objective of this paper is to advance our understanding of employee perception of human resource training and development (HRT&D) through a survey of employees of twenty companies in the list of Global Compact Network Vietnam, as a first step in dealing with it’s benefit to organizations and as a compliment to the literature on the relationship between human resource management and CSR. Many companies are realizing that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a high profile notion that the business world perceives as strategic (Porter & Kramer, 2006). Several studies have shown that firms that perform socially responsible activities enjoy benefits such as customer satisfaction and favourable customer evaluations (Brown and Dacin, 1997; Luo and Bhattacharya, 2006; Marin et al., .