THE INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON HUMAN RESOURCES - CAREER FORMATION

<p><strong>Purpose</strong> - "the social responsibility" of the organization must include measures such as: stimulating the lifelong learning process, meaning "lifelong learning", giving decision-making responsibility to employees (delegation and participatory management), transparency and good information throughout the organization, a sustainable and general balance between work objectives or tasks and personal and / or family needs etc. </p><p><strong>Methodology/approach</strong> – online questionnaire used to collect the data, which allowed the analysis and explanation of the causal relationships between the variables. </p><p><strong>Findings</strong> - corporate social responsibility must include measures of transparency and good information throughout the company, a sustainable and general balance between objectives or work tasks but also measures for employees by providing equal treatment, a sustainable and equitable structure.</p><p><strong>Research limitations/implications</strong> - Romanian employees' interest in corporate social responsibility reports, their perception of the reasons for companies' involvement in such activities</p><p><strong>Practical implications</strong> - real support in making managerial decisions, thus bringing a series of contributions to the CSR activity of companies</p><p><strong>Originality/value</strong> - no Romanian research has been conducted to bring in the way employees perceive the CSR activities carried out and communicated by companies</p&gt

COVID-19 APPROACHES ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

<p><strong>Purpose</strong> - The purpose of this research is to identify how Romanian organizations have implemented corporate social responsibility models by examining employees' perceptions of the relationship between management behavior and actions and employee morale. </p><p><strong>Methodology/approach</strong> – Qualitative research based on case studies with used semi-structured interviews. The study contains data from 10 respondents from 7 companies and compiles enough information to understand the investigated phenomenon. </p><p><strong>Findings</strong> - The labor market impediments created by the Covid-19 pandemic, requires the update of the company's policies for permanent or remote employees, flexible employees and / or mixed location, but also for new employees. </p><p><strong>Research limitations/implications </strong>- the impossibility of extrapolating the results to the entire researched population. One of the limits of qualitative research is that only SMEs from Bucharest, Brașov, Cluj, Galați, Prahova are considered. Thus, the results are relatively particular and difficult to generalize. </p><p><strong>Practical implications</strong> - Most respondents agree that human resource management is one of the internal dimensions of corporate social responsibility.</p><p><strong>Originality/value</strong> - The contribution of this study is remarkable, as it explores the impact of the pandemic on the staff recruitment and selection process, but also on employee retention. </p&gt