The dark side of Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from a Public Sector Oil Company

Abstract

This study attempted to investigate the positive and negative impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) attributions on the turnover intentions of the employees with mediating role of their psychological safety in a public sector oil and gas company in Pakistan. Data were collected through a selfadministered questionnaire and a sample size of 276 was recorded. Preacher & Hayes’ macro of mediation was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. It was found that Intrinsic CSR attributions reduces turnover intentions of employees whereas, extrinsic CSR attributions enhances them. Furthermore, a partial mediating role of psychological safety was also found between CSR attributions (i.e. intrinsic/extrinsic) and turnover intentions. Several theoretical and managerial implications have been discussed