Motives of Managers for Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Sri Lanka

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Available online at www.globalilluminators.org GlobalIlluminators FULL PAPER PROCEEDING Multidisciplinary Studies Full Paper Proceeding MISG-2014, Vol. 1, 78-86 ISBN: 978-969-9948-21-3 MIS G-14 Motives of Managers for Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Sri Lanka R. M. D. A. P. Rajapakse 1 & A. A. J. Fernando 2 1 University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2 University of Sri Jayawardanapura, Sri Lanka Abstract This research is attempted to identify relative importance of underlying motives of managers in Sri Lankan business organizations regarding the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Research is considered the managers of companies listed in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). Hence the present study is selected only four sectors in CSE namely manufacturing, banking finance and insurance, plantation and beverage food and tobacco. Study was based on the primary data. Primary data was collected through questionnaire and it was constructed to reflect key motives of CSR suggested in the literature and to examine whether it has been changed according to the business and personal profile of the manager. Descriptive analysis, independent sample t-test and One-way ANOVA occupied for the analysis. According to the results in descriptive analysis CSR is a more intrinsically driven concept in Sri Lanka. But managers are not rejecting the extrinsic motive as well. Further managers are more focus on the sustainability perspective of the society when engage in the CSR activities. That is the major concern about the CSR in the global arena in today s context. Analysis of the data reveals that managers perceived that long term sustainability must be the focus of CSR activities of the company and it should be should link with the national development policies of the country. This implies that readiness of corporate world for the engaged in national development activities. Therefore this study pave the path for government and all the other responsible authorizes to stimulate the CSR in Sri Lanka. Policy makers should initiate social and environmental projects that could easily be implemented by the private sector to assist in sustainable development of the country. 2014 The Authors. Published by Global Illuminators. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific & Review co mmittee of MISG-2014. Keywords Corporate Social Responsibility, Motives. Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a notable topic within the present day global business arena. Today s competitive and dynamic market environment has created a new set of challenges for any business which are not related to economics. To survive and prosper in that environment, firms must bridge the gaps in economic as well as social systems. Maximizing shareholder s wealth is an every time essential for a profit oriented business, but filling that condition alone is no more valid in measuring the financial prosperity. The necessity has arisen to not only focus on maximizing shareholder wealth but, also to look at other aspects as well and because of this, number of theories, principles and concepts have been developed presenting various other areas that demand attention. Some of the well known concepts are Stakeholder theory (Freeman 1984), Social Responsibility, Social Responsiveness (Wood 1991), Corporate Social Performance (Carroll 1979), Social Issue Management (Clarkson 1995) and Social Accounting (Gray & Maunders 1987) etc. These theories now act as the back bone of an organization s prosperity and moreover ensure organization s sustainability. Out of these concepts and theories which have emerged recently the present study focuses on CSR. In developing economies like Sri Lanka, the CSR concept plays an important role in the sustainable development discourse (Nanayakkara 2010). It is identified as one of the potential solutions to sustainable development and provides a social return on investment, beyond mere financial profit. There is an increasing trend in CSR engagement and reporting throughout the world which is also observed to be true for certain Sri Lankan companies despite the fact that the motives of CSR are yet to be researched or are *All correspondence related to this article should be directed to R. M. D. A. P. Rajapakse, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Email: amilar@kln.ac.lk 2014 The Authors. Published by Global Illuminators. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific & Review co mmittee of MISG-2014.

little examined. Corporations are represented by the people and therefore, corporate social commitments are maintained, nurtured and advanced by the people who manage them. Managers are the change agents and their awareness of and commitment to CSR is widely recognized as key success factors for implementation of social and environmental initiatives (Jenkins 2006). Evidence also indicates that management of an organization has an important impact on the process and outcomes of CSR activities (Mamic 2005). In the Sri Lankan context, according to Gunewardana (2009), even CEOs of many companies have yet to perceive its value and necessity and its essential relationship to a company s operating philosophy and as a driver of its future performance. Therefore, it is worthwhile to examine the motives of managers by forming the question, What are the underlying motives of managers in Sri Lankan business organizations in relation to Corporate Social Responsibility? Based on the above question the following objectives are expected to be achieved at the end of this study by focusing on the motives of managers on CSR. 1. To identify the relative importance of CSR motives of the managers. 2. To examine whether there are any significant differences in motives of CSR based on the following selected criteria. 2.1 the personal profile characteristics (gender, tenure of current job) of the managers 2.2 the different industry sectors 3. To examine the perceived barriers for the effective implementation of CSR activities in the companies. Across the last two decades there has been a great deal of research into the social and environmental reporting practices and managerial perceptions of such reporting operating in developed countries (Thilakasiri, Armstrong & Heenatigala 2011). However, whilst there is a wealth of research that explores social and environmental reporting motives in developed counties; there is relatively limited research within the developing countries like Sri Lanka. Thereby, there is a prevailing dearth of research on CSR motives in Sri Lanka. Thus, the present study will contribute to reduce that void in existing literatures. Additionally, researchers have emphasized that the developing world needs special attention to develop CSR concepts because these economies have many differences compared with developed ones (Blofield & Frynas 2005). Furthermore, they have stated that CSR can be identified as a bridge connecting the arena of business and development, and increasingly discusses CSR programmes in terms of their contribution to development (Blofield & Frynas 2005). Thus, it is important for policy makers and societal groups to stimulate the CSR to assist the sustainable development of the country. Policy makers should implement institutional reforms in order to increase the CSR engagement. As well as partnering with the public and private sectors will facilitate to boost social responsibility in Sri Lanka. Review of literature Researchers found that management has an important impact on the process and outcomes of CSR activities (Waddock, Bodwell & Graves 2002). The role of management in shaping the organization and its activities has been a popular research topic for years, and a central feature in these efforts has been the analysis of managerial perceptions and how these are linked to a set of background characteristics and psychological determinants (Pedersen & Neergaard 2009). Executives may contribute to CSR for various reasons. Extrinsic motive revolve fundamentally around managerial beliefs that engaging in social initiatives can have a direct impact on profitability improving revenue or protecting existing profit levels. The first reason is the financial motive that CSR contributes to the (long term) financial performance of the company. Many empirical studies find a positive relationship between CSR and profitability (Orlitzky, Schmidt & Rynes 2003; Waddock & Graves 1997). Intrinsic motives are anchored in the idea that business has an ethical duty to give back to society. While empirical evidence supports the view that CEOs tend to establish the ethical norms for corporations, middle managers can also play an important role in acting as socially responsible change agents and are able to exhibit their personal values through the exercise of managerial discretion (Hemingway & Maclagan 2004). Brønn and Vidaver-Cohen (2008) distinguish two types of intrinsic motives: CSR as legitimacy and CSR as sustainability. According to Anthonisz (2011), STING consultants also mention that there is an increased interest in the area of corporate accountability amongst Sri Lankan companies and an increas ed awareness on the importance of incorporating this into everyday business. Researchers (Fernando 2010; Rathnasiri 2003) have highlighted that the Sri Lankan companies are implementing CSR for philanthropic purposes. The most common understanding of CSR is related to sponsorship of community activities and donations to good causes, and hence most people are ignorant of the broader objectives of CSR. 79

Research method The current research scenario is used the quantitative research method in order to achieve the objectives. This quantitative method is being used by the dominant methodology used in extant literature. The unit of analysis of the current study would be managers of the companies. The population of this study consists of managers of all the companies listed in Colombo Stock Exchange of Sri Lanka. Researcher considers only the senior management and the middle management of the companies since those two categories have the higher decision making authority in an organization. The sample of the study consists of 100 respondents representing Manufacturing, Banking Finance and Insurance (BFI), Plantation and Beverage Food and Tobacco (BFT) sectors for the study. The stratified convenience sampling technique is used in this study. In order to collect the data the researcher developed a questionnaire. It reflected key motives of CSR suggested in the literature and examined whether it has changed according to the profile of the manager. The questionnaire is mainly based on the items that are closely connected to the well-known typology of CSR developed by Carroll (1999) and scale developed by Aupperle, Carroll & Hatfield (1985). Respondents were asked to rate each motive statement on a five point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Analysis of the collected data was facilitated through Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 windows evaluation version. The researcher developed the hypotheses in order to test whether the CSR motives vary according to the selected personal profile characteristics of the respondents and the different industry sectors. H 1 : Males and females are different in terms of the CSR motives on a statistically significant basis. H 2 : In terms of the tenure of the current job, the CSR motives differ on a statistically significant basis. H 3 : In terms of the industry sector, the CSR motives differ on a statistically significant basis. The data analyses are based on the descriptive statistics and One-way ANOVA and independent sample t- test is used to test the hypotheses. Analysis and Discussion A total of 100 usable questionnaires were received. Table 01 shows the summary of the sample. Results indicate that the majority of the respondents are male managers (77%). In the selected sample 39% of the respondents have worked for 11-20 years in their current job. Table 1: Summary of the sample Description Number of Managers Gender Male 77 Female 33 Tenure of current job 1-5 years 15 6-10 years 37 11-20 years 39 More than 21 years 9 Designation Senior Management 36 Functional Heads 64 Industry Sectors Manufacturing 35 BFI 31 Plantation 19 BFT 15 The majority of the respondents were from functional heads category level respondents (64%) and percentage of the respondents of the senior management level is 36%. Out of the selected sectors, the manufacturing sector represents majority of the sample which is 35% and it is closely followed by BFI sector. 80

Reliability Analysis To fulfill the requirement of the reliability in this study, Cronbach s Alpha is adopted to secure a reaso nable items coefficients. Thus, the internal consistency of different CSR motives was tested through Cronbach s alpha coefficient. Table 2: Reliability Analysis of variables Variable Number of Items Cronbach s Alpha Extrinsic Motive 4 0.862 Moral/Ethical Motive 4 0.718 Altruism Motive 4 0.823 Sustainability Motive 4 0.706 Table 02 results show that the extrinsic motive variable records the highest Cronbach s alpha value of 0.862 and for all the motives are acquired the accepted Conbrach s alpha value criterion of 0.7 to achieve the needs of internal consistency. Motives of Corporate Social Responsibility In order to identify relative importance of the CSR motives, mean score of the each variable was calculated. Table 03 shows that respondents ranked sustainability motive as the most important CSR motive followed closely by ethical/moral motive. Altruism motive recorded in the moderate mean value. Table 3: Mean scores of CSR motives Variable Mean Score Standard Rank Deviation Extrinsic Motive 3.491 0.797 4 Moral/Ethical Motive 3.917 0.447 3 Altruism Motive 4.215 0.631 2 Sustainability Motive 4.221 0.333 1 Graafland and Van de Ven (2006) identified two management views on CSR called strategic view and moral view. Strategic view deals with the extrinsic aspect and the moral view deals with the intrinsic aspect of the CSR motives. They also found that moral duty towards the society is more important than the strategic view. The current study recorded a higher order consideration for altruism motive. This finding of the study comply with the pervious researchers (Fernando 2010; Rathnasiri 2003). They have highlighted that the Sri Lankan companies are implementing CSR mainly for philanthropic purposes. Testing of hypotheses Before testing of hypotheses, the data collected was tested for normality by using Kolmogorov test and the Shapiro-Wilk test. Accordingly the data was normally distributed and the parametric tests were conducted. Table 4 reports the result of independent sample t-test which was conducted to test H 1 hypothesis. Based on the gender, it can be concluded that intrinsic motives are more important than the extrinsic motives. It can be seen that recorded mean scores of female respondents are relatively high when compared the male respondents except for the extrinsic motive. This result is compatible with the findings of the previous authors (Burton & Hegarty 1999). They found that the CSR orientation is much higher amongst female managers than male managers. Table 4: Results of Hypothesis H 1 CSR Motive Factor Mean Standard Deviation t p-value Extrinsic Male 3.504 0.7652 Female 3.447 0.9226 0.270 0.788 Moral Male 4.235 0.4316 Female 4.237 0.5101-0.017 0.986 Altruism Male 3.905 0.6089 Female 3.961 0.7181-0.334 0.739 Sustainability Male 4.466 0.3478-2.270 0.026 81

Intrinsic Female 4.658 0.2238 Male 4.202 0.3713 Female 4.285 0.4038-0.843 0.402 The p value is larger than 0.05 for all the motives except for sustainability motive. Therefore, for those motives null hypothesis that is, there is no statistically significant difference in mean scores of CSR motives between male and female respondents cannot be rejected. The significant level of t value is less than 0.05 for the sustainability motive and this hypothesis concludes an inconclusive decision for the current study. Akbas, Arzu and Salih (2011) found that, for ethical and philanthropic CSR orientation gender would not be an important factor. But for the extrinsic orientation gender would be a significant factor. But current study found gender would not be a significant factor for both extrinsic motive and intrinsic motive. Table 5 reports the result of One-way ANOVA which was conducted to test H 2 hypothesis. By comparing mean values it can be seen that when the tenure of current job become higher the scored mean values also reported higher values. Intrinsic CSR motive scored higher mean values compared with the extrinsic CSR motives. Table 5: Results of Hypothesis H 2 CSR Motive Factor Mean Standard Deviation 1-5 years 3.365 0.7543 Extrinsic 6-10 years 3.484 0.9046 11 20 years 3.349 0.6989 More than 21 years 4.000 0.7638 1-5 years 4.135 0.3625 Moral 6-10 years 4.234 0.4013 11 20 years 4.250 0.5116 More than 21 years 4.357 0.5175 1-5 years 3.750 0.4544 Altruism 6-10 years 3.883 0.7099 11 20 years 3.977 0.6199 More than 21 years 4.107 0.6099 1-5 years 4.481 0.2788 Sustainability 6-10 years 4.516 0.3859 11 20 years 4.515 0.2928 More than 21 years 4.500 0.4083 1-5 years 4.122 0.2559 Intrinsic 6-10 years 4.211 0.4180 11 20 years 4.248 0.3623 More than 21 years 4.321 0.4773 F p-value 1.109 0.350 0.396 0.756 0.639 0.552 0.039 0.989 0.516 0.673 According to the results, for all the motives of CSR differences the significant level is greater than 0.05 (the acceptance level of significance). Therefore, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected and which implies that there are no statistically significant difference in CSR motives based on the tenure of the current job. Akbas et al. (2011) found that tenure of current job was not a significant factor for the ethical motives. However, they further revealed that there were a statistically significant difference between the importance placed on economic/financial motive and the altruism motive. Table 6 shows the mean scores and the One-way ANOVA results of H 3 hypothesis. According to the descriptive analysis, mean score of the intrinsic CSR motives is higher than the extrinsic motive. In the case of extrinsic motive manufacturing sector gives the highest priority value. Meanwhile and plantation sector gives least priority for the extrinsic motive. 82

Table 6: Results of Hypothesis H 3 CSR Motive Factor Mean Standard Deviation Manufacturing 3.583 0.7350 Extrinsic BFI 3.481 0.8716 Plantation 3.297 0.7484 BFT 3.539 0.8889 Manufacturing 4.300 0.4121 Moral BFI 4.154 0.5660 Plantation 4.219 0.3010 BFT 4.269 0.4265 Manufacturing 3.850 0.6585 Altruism BFI 4.067 0.6839 Plantation 3.813 0.5951 BFT 3.904 0.4952 Manufacturing 4.367 0.3979 Sustainability BFI 4.539 0.2617 Plantation 4.609 0.3158 BFT 4.654 0.1920 Manufacturing 4.172 0.4135 Intrinsic BFI 4.235 0.3996 Plantation 4.214 0.3429 BFT 4.276 0.3088 F p-value 0.458 0.713 0.520 0.670 0.746 0.528 3.487 0.190 0.314 0.815 Manufacturing sector gives highest importance for the moral perception by scoring mean value of 4.30, may be because of the importance of meeting with the societal and ethical norms when manufacturing the product and services in this sector. BFI sector gives higher scores for altruism motive followed by the BFT. Nevertheless, this finding may be due to the fact that importance of good social relations in the BFI sector since these is service oriented industry sectors. According to the One-way ANOVA results, significant level for all the CSR motives are greater than 0.05 (the acceptance level of significance). Therefore, there is no statistically significant difference in CSR motives in terms of the business industry backgrounds of the respondents. The myths of CSR include that manufacturing sector highly influences on the environment when doing the manufacturing activities. In the manufacturing sector, the negatives externalities are often high. This hypothesis confirmed that business sectors will not be a significant factor for engaging in the CSR activities. Managers of both manufacturing and service providing companies equally perceived that CSR is important. Perceived barriers for implementation of CSR activities Final objective of the study is to find out the barriers for effective implementation of CSR activities in companies according to the management view. Figure 1, which deals with the identifying the main barriers for implementing the CSR in the companies. 83

Low level of awareness of lower level managers on social and Lack of readiness and skills of employees Lack of initiations from top management Inability to allocate significant amount of funds 3.26 3.04 2.64 3.39 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 Mean Scores Figure 1: Perceived barriers for implementing the CSR activities Respondent managers percived that inability to allocate significant amount of funds would be one of the reasons for the implementation issue. Thus, companies may lose great opportunities. According to the Figure 1 it can be clearly exhibited initiation from top management would not be a main barrier for the effective implementation of the CSR activities. In addition to that generally managers perceived long term sustainability must be the focus of CSR activities of the company (see Figure 2). This finding is further confirmed one of the findings in the current study that is among perceived motives managers generally give higher priority for the sustainability perspective. Further managers of the sample perceived that when developing the CSR policy of the company it should be linked with the national development policies of the country. It implies the readiness of the corporate world for engaging in national development activities. This would be a great finding for the policy makers to stimulate the CSR activities through national development projects. 84

Focus on meeting the ISO guidelines such as ISO 26000 Comply with best available reporting guidelines such as GRI G3 CSR policy should link to the national development policies The employees should be well trained to deal with CSR Long term sustainability must be the focus Focus of CSR is to pass some benefits to stakeholders A reasonable budget for CSR must be made available Experts must be consulted with regard to CSR engagement Separate entity should be created to run the CSR engagement Stakeholders should be consulted to set the focus of CSR 3.55 3.71 4.18 3.94 4.25 3.65 4.08 3.27 3.05 3.88 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Mean Scores Figure 2: Perceived corporate CSR policy Concluding Remarks Consensus emerges that the CSR can best contribute to sustainable development by addressing the social, economic and environmental issues. Due to this CSR is a notable topic within the present day global business arena. Many researchers in the recent past have done a growing number of studies relating to CSR as indicated by the literature. However, little attention has been paid to understanding why or why not corporations act in socially responsible ways. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to identify the relative importance of motives of managers in Sri Lankan business organizations regarding Corporate Social Responsibility. Accordingly both extrinsic and intrinsic motives are perceived as important motives by the managers in Sri Lankan compan ies. None of the motives were rejecting by the Sri Lankan managers. Based on the mean values sustainability, altruism and ethical motives were ranked as 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd respectively. The second objective is to examine the significant differences in CSR motives based on some selected criteria. It was found that there is no statistically significant difference between mean scores of CSR motives between male and female respondents for all the CSR motives except for sustainability motive. Further it was found that there is no statistically significant difference in CSR motives based on the tenure of the current job. In addition to that it was found that when tenure of current job is high perceived value for CSR motives also high. Further result shows that there is no statistically significant difference between mean scores of CSR motives and the industry backgrounds in Sri Lanka. Managers of both manufacturing and service providing companies equally perceived that CSR is important. Managers believe that inability to allocate a significant amount of funds would be a one of the major barriers for the implementation CSR in companies. Further another barrier would be the low level of awareness among the lower level managers on real meaning of the social and environmental responsibility. Initiation from top management would not be a main barrier for the effective implementation of the CSR activities. 85

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