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

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 procrastination. However, the scientific literature has not yet provided an unambiguous explanation of the prevalence of employee procrastination 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 procrastination 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 attention 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 literature on workplace procrastination with new insights that can improve our understanding of how this phenomenon is related 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 employee procrastination as well as a reference point for introducing practical measures to eliminate employee procrastination in organisations by changing their CSR status. This research proposes 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]