Participation in Corporate Social Responsibility Related to Environmental and Safety Activities of Workers

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to find the factors affecting the workers’ participation on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities related to environment and safety of the power plants in Saraburi province. The self-completed questionnaire was employed to collect data in 4 parts which were general information, attitude on CSR, CSR supporting systems, and workers’participation. The data were analyzed by using Pearson's Correlation Coefficient and Chi-Square at a significance level of 0.05.

From 284 returned questionnaires (91% of samples), it was found that almost all of the sample respondents were male (83.1%), 25 – 35 years old (48.6%), from a department of operation (52.5%) with less than 3 years of working experience (50.4%) and had received the information about corporate social responsibility of environment and safety (80.6%). The results revealed that 68% of the respondents had good to excellent attitude on cooperate social responsibility of environment and safety. Furthermore, 70% of the respondents had high to highest agreement on CSR supporting systems. However, 76% of the respondents ‘participation in cooperate social responsibility of environment and safety was in the low to medium level. The factors that had been found related to workers’ participation from general information were salary, information awareness and department. In addition, salary and working experience were personal factors associated with monitoring and evaluation of CSR of environment and safety. Moreover, there was a significant positive relevance between workers’ attitude and CSR of environment and safety as well as between CSR supporting system and CSR of environment and safety.

The finding from this study could be concluded that in addition to personal factors, attitude and CSR supporting system, there were other factors related to worker’s participation on CSR of environment and safety of the power plants in Saraburi province.

Keywords: Worker’s participation, Corporate Social Responsibilities, Environment and Safety