Effects of corporate social responsibility on employees commitment to the organization in the construction industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

UAE has been one of the top most transparent countries in the Arab world. The main rationale of this research is examination role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices (to stakeholders, both internal and external) on employees’ commitment to organization in UAE. To achieve this goal the research examined the relations in a proposed model, which has four independent variables {CSR to employees (CSREM), CSR to customers (CSRCUS), CSR to environment (CSREN), and CSR to community (CSRCOM)}, one main dependent variable employees’ commitment to the organization (ECO), and one mediating variable employees’ job satisfaction(JS). In addition, organizational culture (OC) is proposed as a moderator. Data has been collected by using a well-structured questionnaire from employees of 60 different construction organizations. The data has been collected in 2018 and the final clean data set were 457 cases. In addition, results of the main dependent variable, ECO illustrates a moderate predictive power and a large predictive relevance. The prediction constructs (CSREM, CSRCUS, CSREN, CSRCOM, and JS) can explain more 65% of the ECO variance. For the main dependent variable, ECO, all the five relationships are accepted with variables. For the second dependent variable, JS, one relationship is not-accepted and three relationships are accepted. The not-accepted relationship is associated with CSRCOM variable. For mediation effect analysis, JS mediation between CSRCUS and ECO is significant. In addition, JS mediation between CSREM and ECO is significant. In addition, JS mediation between CSREN and ECO is significant. However, JS mediation between CSRCOM and ECO is not significant and the mediation effect is not-accepted. Therefore, JS mediation effect is accepted for three relationships, and not-accepted for one relationship. The moderation effect of OC on the relationship between JS and ECO is accepted.