Abstract
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities have turn out to be important for corporate strategy in businesses. With an increased pressure from the stakeholders, these require the management of a company to be transparent and reliable in reporting their CSR activities. Perhaps, it is also imperative for the financial performance in a long term. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the extensiveness of corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) among plantation and consumer products listed companies on Bursa Malaysia. Additionally, this study looking evidence on the relationship between CSRD and company financial performance (CFP) of selected companies. The data is obtained through content analysis of the company annual reports and stand-alone sustainability reports for the period of 2003-2013. Based on the stratified sampling method, 40 companies have been selected. The four independent variables are the CSR framework outlined by Bursa Malaysia (community, environment, marketplace and workplace) and the dependent variables (return on asset and Tobin’s Q) is used in this study. Data were analyzed using E-views software. The findings discovered that consumer product sector recorded the highest CSRD which the workplace dimension become the preference while plantation is the least sector. Furthermore, the findings from the panel data regression models on the impact of CSRD associated with CFP, it revealed that there is a mixed relationship associated with return on assets (ROA) and Tobin’s Q (TQ). The findings of this study were particularly important not only to the existing literature but also for both sectors to consider the importance of CSR activities in their business operation activities.
Highlights
Organizations tend to compete on the basis of their human resources, ; currently, human resource is considered as the most effective and important resource of the organization that enables them to gain a competitive advantage (Alsakarneh et al, 2018)
; it is highly effective for the employees to get appreciated and rewards are being distributed on the basis of their performance
Tangible rewards are being used at a certain level for the employees to increase their motivation and loyalty as well, ; it is difficult to say that tangible rewards are directly linked with organizational effectiveness
Summary
Organizations tend to compete on the basis of their human resources, ; currently, human resource is considered as the most effective and important resource of the organization that enables them to gain a competitive advantage (Alsakarneh et al, 2018). ; there are different methods and measures used in order to analyse the performance of the employees which able to offer rewards whether they are tangible or intangible (Yousaf et al, 2015) It is being done in the private or public sector as well because the main purpose of these features is to motivate the employees that enable them to contribute towards organizational effectiveness and efficiency as well. For that purpose; it is required to develop the effective reward system that illustrates organizational mindset and enable their employees to facilitate learning and productivity In this way; performance appraisal or evaluation system should be effective key success factor along with the performance indicators should be fine adequately so the employees are able to meet the expectations and they should be aware of the organization strategy regarding the rewards. This will help the corporate sector of Iraq to use the findings of the study and bring the effective reward system in the organization to increase its effectiveness
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