Modern organizations must consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications. CSR involvement carries many potential benefits, including opportunities to promote stakeholder engagement with the organization, particularly among young people (i.e., millennials) in the emergent workforce. Collectively, millennials are often described as both socially active and self‐centered. These seemingly antithetical motives complicate the execution of optimal recruitment practice. This empirical study examined the impact of CSR activity and relative pay level signals on organizational attractiveness. Participants who were seeking or soon to be seeking employment in the United States responded to a hypothetical company profile. Confirming expectations, results revealed an effect of CSR information on organizational attractiveness, wherein notification of CSR involvement enhanced attractiveness. Pay level and CSR notification did not significantly interact, indicating that the effects of CSR on attractiveness are not moderated by information about pay levels. The implications of the results and future research recommendations are discussed.

Abstract. The present study builds on extant leadership literature by examining the role demographic variables (including age, tenure as a leader at the current company, experience in the industry, and level of education) play as moderating effects on the relationship between leadership style and small business financial performance in the national distribution wholesale industry. Financial data, leadership data, and demographic data were collected from 100 small, industrial distribution organizations. Statistical regression models were used to examine the relationship between the independent variables (transformational and transactional leadership styles) and dependent variables (year-over-year sales and profit margin performance), as well as the potential moderating effect of demographic variables (age, tenure, education, experience). The findings showed that transformational leadership was positively associated with the financial performance of an industrial distribution firm. It was also shown that the demographic characteristics examined did not moderate the relationship between leadership and firm performance.

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