In today’s world, the increasing volume of graduates leads to a very competitive job market especially in the accounting sector. This essay will discuss to an extent whether the impact of job satisfaction and motivation relate to a happy accountant. Job satisfaction could be defined as “the degree to which employees has a positive orientation towards employment by the organisation” Prince & Mueller (1986) cited by Brierley (1999, p. 63). Distinctively this essay will analyse whether a well-paid accountant is a happy accountant. Furthermore this essay will examine the influence of gender role and whether well-being has a correlation in job satisfaction. In addition this essay will discuss how accounting practise works around the world relating
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Therefore Rhodes (1983) cited by (Beng Ang, Tee Goh and Chye Koh, 1993) would support job satisfaction is strongly and consecutively related with age. From their findings it shows that the level of satisfaction on young accountants was the lowest overall mean of 122.31 and the accountants who are 45+ averaged job satisfactions of 136.78. Therefore the evidence would imply young accountants may be less satisfied as they have less experience consequently they would have limited task to conduct compared to the older accountants. Moreover Thomas (1989) cited by (Beng Ang, Tee Goh and Chye Koh, 1993) demonstrates that accountants 40+ may consider the idea of an early retirement. This could imply the older accountants may be overwhelmed by the changing in technologies and structure of the organisation. However these research was carried out in Singapore with a limited sample therefore this could only be justified to an extent that age has a major impact on job …show more content…
Brown & Peterson (1993) cited by Wiley (1997) evaluates gender can have a major impact on job satisfaction as female accountants are less satisfied of their professions this could be due to pay being evidently discriminatory. Similarly Accounting WEB (2013) study would further emphasis with statistical figures that 72% of male accountants are satisfied with their job compared to 60% of females. As a result their findings would support the surmising that a well-paid accountant is a happy accountant. In addition the statistics of PwC (diagram) presented the high volume of difference of their male and female employees. Therefore it could be an invalid assumption that accounting is a masculine workplace this could be supported with the study of (Wong et al 1985; Lemkau 1983: Maupin & Lehman 1994) cited by Bay (2015) found that women in the accounting field are considered to have stereotypically masculine characteristics than other women. Similarly Bay (2015) emphasises that women can show cross gender characteristics of 56% and 43% of men shows feminine characters. This substantiates to a degree job satisfaction is related to gender orientation not
Therefore Rhodes (1983) cited by (Beng Ang, Tee Goh and Chye Koh, 1993) would support job satisfaction is strongly and consecutively related with age. From their findings it shows that the level of satisfaction on young accountants was the lowest overall mean of 122.31 and the accountants who are 45+ averaged job satisfactions of 136.78. Therefore the evidence would imply young accountants may be less satisfied as they have less experience consequently they would have limited task to conduct compared to the older accountants. Moreover Thomas (1989) cited by (Beng Ang, Tee Goh and Chye Koh, 1993) demonstrates that accountants 40+ may consider the idea of an early retirement. This could imply the older accountants may be overwhelmed by the changing in technologies and structure of the organisation. However these research was carried out in Singapore with a limited sample therefore this could only be justified to an extent that age has a major impact on job …show more content…
Brown & Peterson (1993) cited by Wiley (1997) evaluates gender can have a major impact on job satisfaction as female accountants are less satisfied of their professions this could be due to pay being evidently discriminatory. Similarly Accounting WEB (2013) study would further emphasis with statistical figures that 72% of male accountants are satisfied with their job compared to 60% of females. As a result their findings would support the surmising that a well-paid accountant is a happy accountant. In addition the statistics of PwC (diagram) presented the high volume of difference of their male and female employees. Therefore it could be an invalid assumption that accounting is a masculine workplace this could be supported with the study of (Wong et al 1985; Lemkau 1983: Maupin & Lehman 1994) cited by Bay (2015) found that women in the accounting field are considered to have stereotypically masculine characteristics than other women. Similarly Bay (2015) emphasises that women can show cross gender characteristics of 56% and 43% of men shows feminine characters. This substantiates to a degree job satisfaction is related to gender orientation not