CSR as Social Responsibility to Employees: How Organizations Communicate with Employees in a Time of Economic Crisis

• In Event: Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics In Uncertain Times

Abstract

How do corporations articulate expectations to employees during hard economic times? This paper analyzes internal messages generated by organizations regarding the current economic crisis. The analysis focuses on (a)how organizations address and justify current organizational expenses, including CSR efforts, (b)how organizations ask employees to act, and (c)how, if at all, the organizations articulate a sense of responsibility and accountability to employees.

Author

• Rebecca Meisenbach, University of Missouri, Columbia