Unpacking the Triad: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Employee Job Satisfaction

The corporate governance (CG) has gained global importance because it is one of the significant determinants of companies' day-to-day performance and success. As environmental and social challenges continue to escalate, stakeholders have progressively underscored the need for governance systems that reconcile economic performance, social responsibility, and environmental stewardship. All this suggests the need for detailed investigation of the influence of CG on employee job satisfaction (EJS), including the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in CG–EJS linkage. The variance-based SEM analysis technique is used in this study since it fits organisational and management research such as the present study. This significance forms the motivation of the present study on the ready-made garments (RMGs) organizations in the context of emerging economies like Bangladesh. The key contribution of this study will be the additional empirical evidence on the vital role of CG to improve EJS. Moreover, previous studies have not focused on the mediating role of CSR in the relation between CG and EJS that deserves the core attention of the current study. Its relevance to the RMGs context in developing economies further adds to the uniqueness of this study. Theoretical and managerial implications are also suggested based on the results of the study. The results of this study may interest entrepreneurs, top management, academics and researchers.