Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions of United States Accountants Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Investigates the impact of locus of control and gender on the experiences and practices of accounting professionals. Also considers the impact of role overload, interrole conflict, and coping behaviour on these attitudes. Suggests that a complex set of forces creates differences in the extent to which an individual encounters, and is successfully able to contend with, both role overload and interrole conflict. Gender differences were observed in the accountants expressions of housekeeper role overload, volunteer role overload, and interrole conflict between work and spouse. Locus of control differences were present in the perceived conflict between work and self. Locus of control and gender interacted to produce differences in accountants expressions of overload and leisurite role overload expressed less satisfaction with their current positions and greater intentions to search for alternative opportunities. Suggests that the accounting environment may still be inhospitable for certain women attempting to realize multiple work and family obligations.

published proceedings

  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal

author list (cited authors)

  • Reed, S. A., Kratchman, S. H., & Strawser, R. H.

citation count

  • 78

complete list of authors

  • Reed, Sarah A||Kratchman, Stanley H||Strawser, Robert H

publication date

  • January 1994