Employee Procrastination in Light of National Cultural Traits and Corporate Social Responsibility
Employee Procrastination in Light of National Cultural Traits and Corporate Social Responsibility

Summary/Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR), which operates as a bridge between the interests of employees and those of the organisation, should act as a counter to workplace procrastina- tion. However, the scientific literature has not yet provided an unambiguous explanation of the prevalence of employee pro- crastination in enterprises that have declared corporate social responsibility that also takes the national culture into account. The main purpose of this paper is to explore employee procras- tination in light of national cultural traits and corporate social responsibility. An empirical study was conducted to investigate Polish and Lithuanian private sector organisations (N=995). The surveys featured the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS-9), the Unintentional Procrastination Scale (UPS-6), the Susceptibility to Temptation Scale (STS-11), and the General Procrastination Scale (GPS-20). A solution to the problem of employee procrastination in organisations requires special at- tention be paid to social corporate responsibility, which can be used as a direct tool to activate or deactivate this phenomenon. The results of this research supplement the scientific litera- ture on workplace procrastination with new insights that can improve our understanding of how this phenomenon is relat- ed to national cultural traits. The value of this research lies in the fact that it presents new and original data that can serve as a basis for the development of theory on the problem of employ- ee procrastination as well as a reference point for introducing practical measures to eliminate employee procrastination in or- ganisations by changing their CSR status. This research propos- es that when introducing CSR, practitioners should develop the internal culture while taking the features of the national culture that can promote employee procrastination into account.

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