EFFECT OF TEACHERS’ PERSONALITY TRAITS ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF RELATIVISM AND IDEALISM AS ETHICAL ORIENTATION IN UNIVERSITIES OF LAHORE, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN

Abstract

The current study aims to ascertain the degree to which organizational commitment and personality traits of teachers are mediated by ethical dimensions. The problem has its roots in academic organizations, and this paper seeks to determine whether ethical aspects are linked to teachers' personality traits and whether they can boost an organization's levels of commitment in a cutthroat setting. SPSS was used to examine the data. Significant correlations between three personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness—and organizational commitment were found via correlation coefficient analysis. The results of the data analysis showed that the relationship between consciousness and extraversion and organizational commitment was mediated by ethical orientation dimension relativism. The findings of the study suggest that teacher’s personality traits effect on organization commitment level and relativism as ethical orientation also play an important role between teacher’s personality traits to raise organization commitment level.