Socially responsible and sustainable employment policy trends

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to examine social and economic issues and problems systematically in order to determine how the public and corporate social responsibility are understood, processed and increased over time; to explore if there are any statistically significant values. Also, the analysis of corporate social responsibility concept is performed and tools of corporate sustainability and its implications on companies are analysed, highlighting the situation regarding corporate social responsibility development in Baltic States. This study investigates the relationship between organizational values and sensitivity to corporate social responsibility among current employees. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is analyzed in order to explain its effectiveness in Lithuanian encouraging firms to focus on the empowerment of business participants and socially oriented effective business development. The research has contributed to the development of assessment instrument for organizational culture environment values orientations that determine the organizational culture environment and ascertain the factors that affect the differences of value orientation structures. This article provides an overview of socially responsible and sustainable employment policy trends in Lithuania. The publication also deals with the employment and corporate social responsibility (CSR) development factors that are closely related with the implementation of socially responsible labour market policies; these factors reflect chances of the population’s integration into the labour market. Results of the research point out the necessity of social responsibility facilitating ethics studies in entrepreneur training programs in universities and colleges. Also, a conclusions has been achieved that the integration of CSR and public administration system would bring higher sustainable level.