The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employees Alin Stancu 1, Georgiana Florentina Grigore 1 and Mihai Ioan Rosca 1 + 1 Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies - Romania Abstract. In the last years we witness a significant increase of society’s overall focus upon issues concerning sustainable development. This trend affected both companies and consumers. The sustainable development concept is present both in the scientific literature, but also in companies board rooms. Companies start to engage in CSR activities in order to respond to an external demand, while taking into consideration the positive effects of CSR. The article presents the results of a quantitative research regarding the employees’ attitude regarding social responsibility activities of their employers. In the beginning a short literature review is presented. Keywords: sustainability, corporate social responsibility, employees. 1. Introduction In the last years we witness a significant increase of society’s overall focus upon issues concerning sustainable development. This trend affected both companies and consumers. The sustainable development concept is present in the scientific literature, and also in companies` board rooms. Concepts such as social responsibility, community development, corporate citizenship, community relations started to be present in the vocabulary used by companies in their annual reports. The annual reports are ways of communicating about the impact that a company has on multiple categories of stakeholder (Gray et. al, 1996). In this context, companies and society have to work together, and this approach will add value for all parties involved and also bring to the surface new market opportunities (Grigore, 2011)....
