Socially Responsible Leadership Influencing on Employee’s Trust at Sustainable Development Companies in Thailand

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Pornchai Sakdanuwatwong

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the relationship between socially responsible leadership, corporate social responsibility and organizational trust and 2) to study the influence between socially responsible leadership, corporate social responsibility and organizational trust. Sample was employee in the sustainable development companies in Thailand. Multi stage sampling technique was applied including quota and convenience sampling respectively, and completely sample size was 400. Using techniques of descriptive statistics, the data collected were analyzed in terms of mean and standard deviation.  In addition, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient method and structural equation modeling technique were also employed.


The results found that the level of socially responsible leadership, corporate social responsibility and organizational trust were high in every factors. The correlation coefficient among latent variable had a significant level at every pair of variables. From structural equation modeling, socially responsible leadership had direct effect on corporate social responsibility with significantly and had a high level of variance predicted by socially responsible leadership. Moreover, socially responsible leadership had indirect effect on organizational trust as mediated by corporate social responsibility with significantly and had moderate level of variance predicted by socially responsible leadership. Finally, corporate social responsibility had direct effect on organizational trust with significantly. The final result found that the theoretical model is consistent with empirical data

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