Examining the link between Human Resources Development and Corporate Social Responsibility: implications for the future

Many economic and social theorists no longer agree that the purpose of corporations should be purely business. Their hypothesis is not complicated: In addition to economic responsibility, organizations also address social and environmental responsibility. Researchers have shown that "Human Resource Development" is one of the areas that can help organizations develop these responsibilities. The aim of this study is to find a link between human resource development and social responsibility, because despite the close relationship between the two, little research has been done on the nature of this link. To this end, we reviewed a corpus of domestic research through a systematic review and document analysis to determine how these two variables are linked. The content of the articles is categorized into two areas based on the main research question: first, the thematic classification of the research and second, the link between human resource development and corporate social responsibility. In the first area, the resources are categorized into three categories: a) the role of human resource development in the formation of corporate social responsibility, b) the role of human resource management in the promotion of corporate social responsibility, and c) factors that influence corporate social responsibility. In the second area, two types of linkages are identified, each operating at two levels: The first linkage (human resource development as part of corporate social responsibility), the second linkage (corporate social responsibility as part of human resource development).