Organizational Values, HR Bundles & Collaboration with Nonprofit Organizations: A Conceptual Framework

This paper elaborates on how organizational values influence the adoption of HR bundles which in turn shape the collaboration motivations and the type of collaboration that a business seeks to establish with a Nonprofit Organization (NPO) to fulfill its corporate social responsibility. Using the interpretive paradigm of sensemaking, this paper suggests that organizations with a value system based on egoism adopt calculative HR bundles and those with values system based on benevolence and principles adopt collaborative HR bundles. Organizations with calculative HR bundles are more likely to have episodic collaboration motivation and enter into philanthropic/transactional collaboration with NPOs while organizations that adopt collaborative HR bundles are more likely to have enduring collaboration motivation and enter into integrative collaboration with NPOs.