The Effect of Personality and Motivation on Employees Organizational Commitment in Managing the Environment .

Organizational commitment, particularly environmental commitment, during the Covid-19 pandemic at any corporation is interesting and important issue to be studied. Whether it could be built in a structural model related to personality and motivation was the objective of this research. Therefore, a causal survey method used by involving 87 employees as sample which selected randomly. Three instruments have been developed with its reliability respectively, to measure employee’s organizational commitment (0,79), personality (0,84), and motivation (0,77). Data analyzed by path analysis. The research results revealed that employee’s motivation was a significant mediator between personality (using big-5 personality) and organizational commitment of employees to manage the environment. Of course, motivation in this case was not a general concept, but it is mostly related to employee’s motivation in protecting the only one planet as a human habitat. Moreover, it was found that personality and motivation, directly and significantly affected on employee’s organizational commitment as well. These findings were important for environmental leaders or managers in trying to overcome some align to environmental problems, especially during the pandemic by considering the role of their motivation based on employee’s personality