Corporate Social Responsibility, Organizational Culture and Business Ethics in Maritime Industry

This study aims to analyze the corporate social responsibility in relation to organizational culture and business ethics of selected Maritime Industry companies operating in region 4 that can be used to come up with corporate responsibility reinforcement model. Specifically, it aimed to determine the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of size of the company, number of years in operations, age of the respondents, sex, marital status, education, number of years in present organization, total number of years of work experience in maritime industry; determine the corporate social responsibility practices of the shipping companies in terms of stakeholder’s value, implementation focus, describe the organizational culture in terms of ability utilization, growth and innovation, helping behavior, personalized relationship and bureaucracy and shared outlook; investigate on the business ethics employed by the companies in terms of attitude and practices; test the significant difference on responses when grouped according to demographic profile; test the significant relationship of corporate social responsibility practices to organizational culture and business ethics, and come up with a model that can be used in Maritime Industry to reinforce its corporate social responsibility practices. It used descriptive method of research. This study revealed that the respondents have high regard of agreement on the corporate social responsibility in terms of stakeholder’s value and implementation focus. In terms of organizational culture, the respondents have high regard also in all its dimensions such ability utilization, bureaucracy and shared value, personalized relationship, growth and innovation. As to business ethics, the respondent agrees on all the values and practices in their respective companies. Significant difference exists on the organizational culture in terms of helping behavior and personalized relationship and business ethics in terms of attitude and practices among male. There is significant difference exist on CSR particularly stakeholder value and implementation structure in terms of educational background especially those with master’s degree, the same with organizational culture and business ethics. Significant difference exists on CSR in terms of stakeholder value and implementation structure when grouped according to monthly income especially those receiving P30,000 monthly income. There is highly significant relationship between CSR practices in terms of stakeholder value and implementation structure, organizational culture, and business ethics. Predictors of CSR practices among shipping companies is determined by growth and innovation, helping behavior and bureaucracy and shared outlook, stakeholder value and attitude and behavior from business ethics.

Keywords – Corporate social responsibility, Business Ethics, Organizational Culture