SIFAT-KEPRIBADIAN DAN DUKUNGAN ORGANISASI SEBAGAI PREDIKTOR KOMITMEN ORGANISASI GURU PRIA DI SEKOLAH DASAR

Unlike in business and industrial setting, researches examining organizational commitment in academic/educationalrealm have been scarce. In particular, because of significant role of male teacher in students’ psychologicaldevelopment, it is necessary to reveal male teachers’ commitment due to persistent huge disparity of their numbers ascompared with their female counterparts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictability of traitspersonalityand perceived organizational support towards male teachers’ organizational commitment and also toexamine the relation of five factors of personality with dimensions of their commitment. Participants for this studyconsisted of male teachers of private elementary schools in Jakarta. This study found that traits-personality andperceived organizational support made significant contributions to teachers’ commitment. More over, it was determinedthat two of five factors of personality were predictors for male teachers’ commitment dimensions. Limitations andimplications of this study are discussed.