30, August 2025

Exploring the Relationship Between Students’ Social Responsibility Efforts and Institutional Performance in Autonomous Institutes

VOLUME-11; ISSUE-8; AUG-2025

Author(s): 1 Dr. Amrita Chaurasia, 2 Dr. Pallavi Jharia,

Authors Affiliations:

1Assistant Professor, School of Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Christ (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR

2Assistant Professor, PMCOE Government Science College, Pandhurna, Distt. Pandhurna, Madhya Pradesh

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202508024     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202508024


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Social responsibility could be a common path to travel which can provide the competitive advantage to the autonomous institute and students. Students create the idea of social responsibility; however the colleges are accountable for developing and fostering the students towards being accountable, the aim of this paper is to answer the question if the initiative towards social responsibility ought to be driven by the scholars or universities management. the present study seeks to understand the impact of the autonomous institute on its social responsibility initiative well thought-out on the performance of the autonomous institute and additionally on students, an appropriate sample size of 150 potential students presently listed and graduates were selected for the survey by faculty, The study style was quantitative, and therefore the form was used as information assortment tool. The response of 80 sampling subjects was submitted. The questionnaire constituted the demographics info further as itemized variables measured on five purpose Likert scale. SPSS 21 has been used for statistical analysis. Findings of the results were calculated by applying frequency, factor analysis and correlation tests. The results showed that social responsibility initiatives and steps have considerably robust and positive relationship in boosting overall performance of the institute. the present study recommended that the academicians ought to take into account it to include it within the study courses.

 
Students, Social Responsibility, Autonomous Institute, Institutional Performance

Dr. Amrita Chaurasia,  Dr. Pallavi Jharia, (2025); Exploring the Relationship Between Students’ Social Responsibility Efforts and Institutional Performance in Autonomous Institutes , International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-8, Pp.195-203.          Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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