The link between social responsibility and diversity in the workplace

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Ana Rita da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19103
• topic: Social responsibility; Human resource management; Diversity; Inclusion; Age; Gender; Responsabilidade social empresarial; Gestão de recursos humanos; Diversidade; Sistemas de quotas de género; Diversidade etária

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gaining increasing importance, not only to organizations, but to society in general. In addition, as the labour force is ageing, and more women are economically active, the importance of efforts towards intergenerational work teams and gender equality, is growing. Thus, to contribute to a deeper insight on the fields of CSR, Human Resource Management (HRM), and Diversity, it became interesting to study the Portuguese context, in terms of the organizational practices adopted, how firms align CSR with HRM, and the way HRM practices influence Diversity Management, focusing on the perceptions of practices of gender and age diversity, in companies. A questionnaire was conducted to 240 participants, where their perceptions were investigated, according to their socio-demographic characteristics. The results showed that women are more supportive of gender quota systems, than men. Thus, men are more influenced by meritocratic beliefs. Although measures of age-diversity had a greater acceptance, when compared to gender-diversity practices, we found that older individuals tend to perceive negatively initiatives that benefit a younger generation. Therefore, Generation X is highly reactive to these practices. Finally, highly literate respondents are more in favour of measures that benefit a specific group of individuals (e.g. women, or older workers). This finding can be associated with their awareness of CSR.