Role of corporate social responsibility, management practices, organizational behavior in social equity with mediating role of women empowerment: A study of the Islamic banking sector of South Punjab

Muhammad Farhan Basheer; Waseem Ul Hameed; Majid Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullah Al Zarooni; Rabeeya Raoof; Javeria Sattar

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926169

Role of corporate social responsibility, management practices, organizational behavior in social equity with mediating role of women empowerment: A study of the Islamic banking sector of South Punjab

Front Psychol. 2022 Oct 13:13:926169. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.926169. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Muhammad Farhan Basheer¹, Waseem Ul Hameed², Majid Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullah Al Zarooni³, Rabeeya Raoof¹, Javeria Sattar¹

Affiliations

¹ Lahore Business School, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
² Centre of Excellence for Islamic Finance and Social Equity (CEIFSE), Department of Islamic and Conventional Banking (DICB), Institute of Business Management and Administrative Sciences (IBMAS), The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
³ School of International Studies (SOIS), University Utara, Changlun, Malaysia.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), management practices (MPs), and organizational behavior (OB) in social equity (SE) with the mediating role of women empowerment in the Islamic banking sector of South Punjab. It is a fact that, in the Islamic banking sector, South Punjab is facing a crisis in terms of SE for its employees and customers. This study is based on the quantitative data collected with a five-point Likert scale to identify the relationship between the variables of the framework. Smart PLS 3 software was used in this study to measure the primary data collected by 355 questionnaires. The study concluded that there is an important role of CSR, MPs, and OB in the management of SE in the Islamic banking sector of South Punjab. The theoretical framework of this study is a significant contribution to knowledge as it is based on the significant variables for SE. The study is significant because it provides theoretical as well as practical implications quite useful for the Islamic banking sector of South Punjab to cope with the problem of SE.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; management practices; organizational behavior; social equity; women empowerment.