IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/woemps/v35y2021i6p1091-1114.html

Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer

Author

Listed:
  • Layla Branicki

    (Macquarie University, Australia)

  • Senia Kalfa

    (Macquarie University, Australia)

  • Stephen Brammer

    (University of Bath, UK)

Abstract

Demographic change, improvements in medical screening and treatment, evolving patterns of work, and eroding social security systems are contributing to greater numbers of seriously and chronically ill employees within the workforce. This study builds upon research in Corporate Social Responsibility and return to work (RTW) to conceptualize responsible return to work (RRTW). The study draws upon first-hand accounts of Australian women breast cancer survivors to inductively theorize the factors influencing RRTW practices. RTW practices that accommodate illness as required by law and regulation are found to be insufficient to meet employees’ needs and expectations and significant challenges for RTW are caused by this frame of reference and the distinction between medically certificated and non-medically certificated leave. Interactions between the economic case for creating mutual benefit through cooperation between employer and employee and the moral case for on-going tailored workplace adaptations as part of RRTW are critically evaluated.

Suggested Citation

  • Layla Branicki & Senia Kalfa & Stephen Brammer, 2021. "Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 35(6), pages 1091-1114, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:35:y:2021:i:6:p:1091-1114
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017020955092
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017020955092
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0950017020955092?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Barbara Foweraker & Leanne Cutcher, 2020. "An Ageless Gift: Reciprocity and Value Creation By and For Older Workers," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 34(4), pages 533-549, August.
    2. Alexander Dahlsrud, 2008. "How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, January.
    3. Christian Voegtlin & Michelle Greenwood, 2016. "Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis," Post-Print hal-01481479, HAL.
    4. Wayne Lewchuk & Marlea Clarke & Alice de Wolff, 2008. "Working without commitments: precarious employment and health," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 22(3), pages 387-406, September.
    5. David A. Jones & Alexander Newman & Ruodan Shao & Fang Lee Cooke, 2019. "Advances in Employee-Focused Micro-Level Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Situating New Contributions Within the Current State of the Literature," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 157(2), pages 293-302, June.
    6. Lavanya Vijayasingham & Uma Jogulu & Pascale Allotey, 2018. "Enriching the Organizational Context of Chronic Illness Experience Through an Ethics of Care Perspective," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 153(1), pages 29-40, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rosa Lombardi & Simone Manfredi & Benedetta Cuozzo & Matteo Palmaccio, 2020. "The profitable relationship among corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A new sustainable key factor," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(6), pages 2657-2667, November.
    2. Astrid Kainzbauer & Parisa Rungruang & Philip Hallinger, 2021. "How Does Research on Sustainable Human Resource Management Contribute to Corporate Sustainability: A Document Co-Citation Analysis, 1982–2021," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-21, October.
    3. Petra Jarkovská, 2020. "Corporate Social Responsibility as a Source of Employees' Job Satisfaction in the Hospitality Industry," Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Economics, vol. 23(1), pages 1-12.
    4. Huma Sarwar & Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq & Simona Franzoni, 2024. "Influence of HRM on CSR and performance of upscale hotels in developed and developing countries," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 335-357, January.
    5. Priyanka Aggarwal & Reetesh Kumar Singh, 2022. "Synthesizing the affinity between employees' internal‐external CSR perceptions and work outcomes: A meta‐analytic investigation," Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(4), pages 1053-1101, October.
    6. Vijayasingham, Lavanya & Jogulu, Uma & Allotey, Pascale, 2021. "Ethics of care and selective organisational caregiving by private employers for employees with chronic illness in a middle-income country," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    7. Yasser Yassin & Markus Beckmann, 2025. "CSR and employee outcomes: a systematic literature review," Management Review Quarterly, Springer, vol. 75(1), pages 595-641, February.
    8. Juan Herrera & Carlos de las Heras-Rosas, 2020. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Resource Management: Towards Sustainable Business Organizations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-24, January.
    9. Atia Alpha Alfa & Raphael Aryee & Franklyn Manu & Israel Kpekpena, 2025. "Scientometric and content analysis‐based review of employees in micro‐level corporate social responsibility research," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(2), pages 1945-1969, March.
    10. Debora Scarpato & Gennaro Civero & Vincenzo Rusciano & Marcello Risitano, 2020. "Sustainable strategies and corporate social responsibility in the Italian fisheries companies," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(6), pages 2983-2990, November.
    11. Sapanna Laysiriroj & Walter Wehrmeyer, 2020. "Intergenerational differences of CSR activities in family-run businesses in eastern Thailand," Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Springer, vol. 5(1), pages 1-15, December.
    12. Agnieszka Kwarcinska, 2021. "Scope of Activities as a Criterion Determining the Type of CSR Actions with Regard to Employees: A Case Study," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4 - Part ), pages 882-893.
    13. Ivan Hilliard, 2013. "Responsible Management, Incentive Systems, and Productivity," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 118(2), pages 365-377, December.
    14. Zhonghua Zhao & Fanchen Meng & Yin He & Zhouyang Gu, 2019. "The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Competitive Advantage with Multiple Mediations from Social Capital and Dynamic Capabilities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-16, January.
    15. David Benjamin Billedeau & Jeffrey Wilson & Naima Samuel, 2022. "From Responsibility to Requirement: COVID, Cars, and the Future of Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-16, May.
    16. Chris Hydock & Neeru Paharia & T. J. Weber, 2019. "The Consumer Response to Corporate Political Advocacy: a Review and Future Directions," Customer Needs and Solutions, Springer;Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Growth (iSIG), vol. 6(3), pages 76-83, December.
    17. Luger, Michaela & Hofer, Katharina Maria & Floh, Arne, 2022. "Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(2).
    18. Francesco Gangi & Antonio Meles & Eugenio D'Angelo & Lucia Michela Daniele, 2019. "Sustainable development and corporate governance in the financial system: Are environmentally friendly banks less risky?," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 26(3), pages 529-547, May.
    19. Maria del Mar Miras & Bernabe Escobar & Amalia Carrasco, 2014. "Are Spanish Listed Firms Betting on CSR during the Crisis? Evidence from the Agency Problem," Business and Management Research, Business and Management Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 3(1), pages 85-95, March.
    20. Francesco Gangi & Mario Mustilli & Nicola Varrone & Lucia Michela Daniele, 2018. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Banks’ Financial Performance," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(10), pages 42-58, October.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:35:y:2021:i:6:p:1091-1114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.