This study draws on deontic justice theory to examine an unexplored socioemotional micro-foundation of corporate social responsibility (CSR), namely anticipated guilt, in an effort to improve our understanding of employees’ moral reactions to their organization’s CSR. We empirically investigate whether environmental CSR induces anticipated guilt (i.e., concerns about future guilt for not contributing to organizational CSR) leading to organizational environmental citizenship behavior. We also consider two boundary conditions related to the social nature of anticipated guilt: line manager support for the environment and negative environmental group norms. To test our hypotheses, we analyzed data from a convenience sample of 503 managers working in Mexican organizations, using Latent Moderated Structural equation modeling. Overall, our results support the deontic argument that employees care about CSR because CSR embodies moral concerns. Specifically, our findings show that efforts to avoid a guilty conscience increase when the line manager provides increased resources and control to act for the environment, and when group members do not care for the environment, suggesting that employees feel they have to compensate for their group’s moral failure.

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对环境的组织公民行为的道义视角：预期内疚的贡献

本研究利用道义正义理论来检验企业社会责任 (CSR) 的未探索的社会情感微观基础，即预期内疚，以提高我们对员工对其组织 CSR 的道德反应的理解。我们凭经验调查环境企业社会责任是否会导致预期的内疚感（即，对未来对组织企业社会责任没有贡献的内疚感的担忧）导致组织环境公民行为。我们还考虑了与预期内疚的社会性质相关的两个边界条件：直线经理对环境的支持和负面的环境群体规范。为了检验我们的假设，我们使用潜在调节结构方程模型分析了来自在墨西哥组织工作的 503 名经理的便利样本数据。全面的，我们的结果支持员工关心企业社会责任的道义论点，因为企业社会责任体现了道德问题。具体来说，我们的研究结果表明，当直线经理提供更多的资源和控制来为环境采取行动时，以及当团队成员不关心环境时，避免内疚的努力会增加，这表明员工觉得他们必须为他们的团队做出补偿。道德失败。