Abstract—Strong moral leadership impacts the ethical
behaviour and social performance of organizations. By
accepting and practising corporate social responsibility and
sustainability principles, organizations are more responsive
towards the concerns and needs of their employees and other
stakeholders. This paper sets out to gauge the perceptions of
managers in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, South Arica
regarding social sustainability performance. A
self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a
non-probability convenient sample of 105 managers to
investigate whether there are relationships between the
independent variables (social responsibility and sustainability)
and dependent variables (classification data). The results
revealed only highly significant relationships between
sustainability and some demographic characteristics. Practical
guidelines are provided how management can incorporate
corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues in daily
activities of organizations to enhance their social sustainability
performance.
Index Terms—Management, social responsibility,
sustainability, social sustainability performance.
Sandra Perks is with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (e-mail:
Sandra.perks@nmmu.ac.za).
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Cite: Sandra Perks and Elroy E. Smith, " A Demographic Analysis of Social Sustainability
Performance in South Africa," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 553-556, 2015.