Corporate Social Responsibility and Perception of Environmental Pillar in the Selected Set of the Slovak Enterprises

In spite of fact that problem of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is very well known worldwide, it gets slowly into awareness in Slovakia. Nowadays more and more Slovak enterprises incorporate CSR principles into their practice and learn to profit from its implementation. This article based on the Carroll's three pillar CRS model, while the environmental pillar was selected as the most important one. On the sample of 58 Slovak enterprises we are verifying presence of a statistically significant effect of the legal form and number of employees (SME size category) on the implementation of environmental issues in the company. In the methodology we are using descriptive statistics, non-parametric methods (The Kruskal-Wallis Test, Jonckheere – Terpstra Test) and Crombach Alpha. The results of the analysis shows that the corporate legal form has no impact on the application of environmental policy, but there is an impact of the number or employees, respectively SME size category. Micro enterprises are not involved in the raising awareness on environmental policy and responsibility on the same extent as small companies. Similar differences between this two size groups we find in their extent of dealing with environmental research and development and protection of the natural environment.