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This article examines the possible implications of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for employee expectations and satisfactions. More specifically, interest centered on the question of how perceptions of the organization's involvement in the resolution of current societal problems might relate to members' expectations of equitable job rewards and satisfactions of Maslow-type needs. Should such relationships exist, organizations might have a more substantive basis for supporting social action programs. A further question concerned the extent to which characteristics of the employee affect these CSR perceptions and their relationships to expectancies and need satisfactions.