Case 15: Improving Employees’ Quality of Life

Hernández, María Isabel Sánchez; García-Miguélez, María Purificación

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5878-0_16

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“…For the definition of indicators that reflect these actions, we have covered several areas. All of them include some determinants of pleasant working conditions, and are oriented to the pursuit of social welfare [24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

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“…Thus, we start to refer to the actions devoted to support the employment of people at risk of social exclusion [30,31] and, at the same time, the fact that the company values the contribution of disabled people to the business world [32][33][34]. Moreover, the interest in the employee's quality of life [29,35], the importance of payments of wages above the industry average and the existence of pension plans [36,37], or the fact that employee compensation will be related to their skills and results [38,39], are aspects that determine a responsible management into the organization. We can add the standards of health and safety beyond the legal minimum (because every company has to fulfill the law) [40], the commitment with the job creation [41] and the training and development programs for employees [32,42].…”

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“…Factor five-Employees Quality of Life (EQL) (5.6% of explained variance): The essential element of this final factor forming ISR, also previously analyzed [29], is the aim to improve employees' quality of life including the disabled and people in risk of social exclusion.…”

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This work focuses on the internal side of social responsibility of organizations in a regional context. Through a survey of 590 managers in classical business services (human-capital intensive) and representative of the productive economy of the Region of Extremadura (Spain), an empirical analysis is conducted. First, a factor analysis is conducted to explore the main dimensions of the internal face of Social Responsibility and second, a structural equations model is developed to look for a relationship with business competitiveness. Business performance and innovation are also considered in the model. The main contribution of the article is the establishment of a set of indicators that will help to build an ongoing and meaningful dialogue with employees improving their quality of life at work that will also serve as important guidance for the increasing of the firm's competitiveness through responsible human resources practices. Some suggestions for a research agenda emerge from this first attempt to approach the internal side of responsibility in business.

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