CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Phuoc D. Nguyen

The relationship between social responsibility, leadership, and performance improvement is that leadership will have a positive impact on real social entrepreneurship. Additionally, they have a positive impact on the interests of enterprises. Osagie et al. (2018) proposed, “By facilitating self-directed learning by corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders, companies can help nourish external learning networks, for instance, peer meetings; participation in think tanks; and inviting and/or visiting pioneering companies and other CSR leaders.” (p. 902). Ultimately business benefits have a positive impact on performance, in which social responsibility may be measured by three components: responsibility to employees and customers, responsibility to suppliers and communities, and environmental responsibility; business benefits are measured by employee retention, attracting and retaining customers, and access to human capital. Glamuzina (2014) suggested, “Before measuring leadership development level, it is necessary to identify the determinants that have a crucial influence on the outcome of the leadership process and based on it on corporate social responsibility as well.” (p. 495). In the long term, the implementation of social responsibility will bring economic efficiency for enterprises to improve the implementation of social responsibility enterprises need to improve each element within it, it should find ways to overcome obstacles and also enhance the views, perceptions, and skills of the leader.