The present study is conducted to learn employees’ perspectives of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities for activities such as: after-work voluntary activities for rural area development, and caring for senior citizens in the neighborhood community. Employees’ engagement and CSR activities have attracted increasingly intense interest among companies in Thailand recently. In recent years Thailand has been growing in economic and social developments compared with other Asian countries. In the present research The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was employed to understand the relationship between intention and behavior of employees’ engagement in CSR activities. The present research is based on the use of the TPB to understand employees’ attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control towards intention in engagement and the present study also expand the Theory by adding CSR perception and perceived CSR information quality into the present research Framework. The data was obtained from 290 employees in Thailand’s companies through a Web-Based survey questionnaire with 264 respondents successfully completed all the survey questions. The results are beneficial to organizations that seek to implement CSR activities more effectively. The findings showed that the TPB explained for CSR perception towards attitude quite well. Moreover, attitude, perceived behavioral control, and perceived CSR information quality influenced their intention to engage in CSR activities while subjective norm not affected the employee intention. Finally, the result of the present study suggested that the intention to engage in CSR activities positive influenced engagement behavior, therefore the CSR, HR, and Organizational Development department should have concerned on the employees’ intention.

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