Abstract:

This study investigated the relationships among “perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR)”, “employees’ positive affect”, and “their altruistic behavior”. Dataset of the study consisted of 133 questionnaires which were gathered from doctors working in two private hospitals in Ankara. Data input and analysis of the research were done with IBM SPSS v.24 software program. “Exploratory factor”, “internal consistency”, “Pearson correlation”, “hierarchical regression” and “Sobel test in an interactive environment” analyses were employed in this study. In terms of participants the results suggest that doctors’ perception of CSR has a direct, significant, and positive effect on their positive affect at the workplace. And then, their positive affect has a direct, significant, and positive effect on their altruistic behavior. However, perceived CSR indirectly influences doctors’ altruistic behavior only through their positive affect in a significant and positive way. In other words, positive affect has a full mediating role in the mechanism established within the scope of the study. Based on the results, we argue that it is possible to boost the positive effects of both positive affect and altruistic behavior on the hospital and thus to contribute to the hospital by raising the level of doctors’ altruistic behavior thanks to the enhancing effect of an increase in doctors’ perception level of CSR on their level of positive affect at the workplace.

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