Online travel shopping has increased significantly over the years and the number of Internet travelers has been rapidly growing, while the traditional
Online travel shopping has increased significantly over the years and the number of Internet travelers has been rapidly growing, while the traditional

Summary/Abstract: Based upon GLOBE international research instruments, this empirical study aims at comparing the attitude towards organization‘s social responsibility values of Romanian middle managers and students. The sample consists of 523 middle managers from a large spectrum of business fields and 429 students (261 in engineering and 168 in business). The students‘ involvement in the research is based upon the assumption that most of them will hold middle management position in the near future. The data has been collected between 2001 and 2008 from managers and in 2009 from students, using a section of GLOBE III questionnaire, about the importance of CSR related values in critical decisions. The findings show significant differences (p<0.05) between the middle managers and students for ten out of fifteen values. The group of managers give significantly higher importance to cost control, decisions‘ effect on long term competitive ability of the organization, on relationships with serious important business partners, sales volume and on firm profitability. The students consider as more important (than managers) the organization‘s responsibility to economic welfare of the nation and local community, as well as the decisions‘ effect on environment, minority and female employees (negative gaps, showing the students‘ aspiration towards paying higher attention to these issues in adopting critical decisions)

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