EFFECT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT TAKING SACCOS IN MOMBASA COUNTY

Abstract

The study set out to determine the influence of corporate social responsibility on organizational 
performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County in Kenya. The study‟s specific 
objectives were to determine the effect of economic social responsibility on organizational 
performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County in Kenya; to examine the effect of 
legal social responsibility on organizational performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa 
County in Kenya; to examine the effect of ethical social responsibility on organizational 
performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County in Kenya and to determine the 
effect of discretionary social responsibility on organizational performance of deposit taking 
SACCOs in Mombasa County in Kenya. To strengthen the conceptual framework the study 
adopted theories such as stakeholder‟s theory, slack resource theory, agency theory and fiduciary 
capitalism theory. The study will target 90 deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County.The 
study sample size was 74. A modified Likert scale questionnaire was developed and divided into 
three parts. A pilot study was carried out to refine the instrument. The quality and consistency of 
the study was further assessed using Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was performed on a 
computer using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS Version 25) for Windows. Data was
presented in form of means, standard deviation, percentages and tables. The study findings 
showed that economic social responsibility, ethical social responsibility and philanthropic social 
responsibility have a positive correlation and legal social responsibility had no correlation with 
organizational performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County. The study 
concluded that economic social responsibility and philanthropic social responsibility affects 
organizational performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County and legal social 
responsibility and ethical social responsibility has no effect on organizational performance of 
deposit taking SACCOs in Mombasa County, Kenya.