HOW EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT MEDIATES THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL FACTORS TOWARD ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Employee Engagement causing the occurance of attachment on employees which influence the expression desired by someone in relations to their professional attitude, that connecting the work woth personal existence for physical, cognitive, and emotional also their self�s role as a whole, so that employees� attachment towards a company will drive the employees� performance. This is proved by the previous studies but they have not included Individual Factors as the force that forms Employee Engagement or Organizational Commitment specifically because seeing how the consequences from Employee Engageement produced. In this study, we include the influence of Individual Factors towards Organizational Commitment mediated by Employee Engagement which distinguishes this study with the previous ones. The objectives of this study are: First, to discover how Individual Factors influenced Employee Engagement on the employees; Second, to find out how the influence of Employee Engagement towards Organizational Commitment on employees; Third, to discover how the influence of Individual Factors towards Organizational Commitment. This study is conducted on respondents in which all of them are employees within MICE industry in Indonesia using Questionnaire. Data analysis on this study is using Structural Equation Modeling ( SEM ) method. The results of this study are found that a high Individual Factors will form a high Employee Engagement, a high Employee Engagement will form a high Organizational Commitment, and a high Individual Factors will form a high Organizational Commitment. In this study, it is found that there is an influence of Individual Factors towards Organizational Commitment mediated by Employee Engagement.