The Research Of The Relationship Between The Characteristics Of Directors And Corporate Social Responsibility

The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the early20th century in theUnited States is widely popular in recent years. This paper adopts the " stakeholder incomecontribution rate" index to measure corporate social responsibility.This paper examines main management characteristics would affect corporate socialresponsibility. This study from the management education, management monetaryremuneration and management scale point view of corporate social responsibility. The resultsshow that: management education level has a significant positive correlation; managementpay is a significant positive correlation; the scale of the management showing a significantnegative correlation. Division of corporate nature of the samples: state-owned and privatesamples found that the conclusions of the state samples and all samples are the same, theresults of private enterprise greatly different. There is no significant correlation betweencharacteristics of managers of private enterprises and corporate social responsibility. Theseresults indicate that company executives characteristics affected their decision-making, andthus affect the actions taken by the company of their leadership (Hambrick and Mason,1984).Based on the above conclusions, we can see to enhance corporate social responsibilityneeds joint efforts of corporate, government and social aspects. The management itself, toimprove the performance of corporate social responsibility: to improve the quality of themanagement team, correct their value orientation; in addition to modest material incentivesgiven to managers, but also accelerate the construction of the reputation of the market; controlthe management scale in a reasonable range; foster awareness of corporate socialresponsibility; improve our corporate social responsibility legislation and social securitysystem; to build the model of governance of the stakeholders in governance; establish ofsound corporate social responsibility monitor system; strengthen private enterprise socialresponsibility and so on.