Evaluating the Perception of Mining Engineers Towards Corporate Social Responsibility Integrated with Engineering Operations in Indian Coal Mining Industry

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been coherent with normal workings of Indian coal mining industry statutorily in response to the statutory mandate and international agenda of sustainable development. The mining engineers mainly formulate the CSR activities and are also responsible for the effective implementation in the field. This paper evaluates the perception of mining engineers in Indian coal mining sector towards CSR and its process of implementation. In this paper a qualitative research has been conducted to assess higher as well as lower level mining engineers. Results of this qualitative research indicated that mining engineers at higher positions in the organisation have more accurate perception about CSR than mining engineers at lower levels but a large proportion of mining engineers at all levels need further knowledge enrichment. The willingness to learn and gain more knowledge about CSR found from the survey has drawn a bright future for CSR integration in engineering process.