Importance Of Job Satisfaction In Accounting

Title: Job Satisfaction of accounting Professional

Introduction:

Nowadays, job satisfaction among employees arouses companies concern. Many companies are eager to improve working performance and motivate employees by rating employees’ job satisfaction. Job satisfaction shows an employee or individual’s reaction to his or her work environment. For example, an individual’s psychological responses to his/her job or the level of contentment a person feels regarding his or her work. However, it is found that the individual turnover may not be directly proportional to one’s job satisfaction. The job satisfaction/turnover literature indicates that individuals who experience relatively low job satisfaction tend to change work positions. Because when one is unsatisfied with one’s job, he/she would tend to change the job. If one keeps working in unsatisfied work environment, his psychological feeling towards the job would remain low. Needless to say, some individuals experience relatively high job

Motivation refers to the forces that are responsible for the direction and the level of the efforts an individual puts into his work. Work motivation theories, associated with job satisfaction, are divided into two main frameworks; content theories, which focus on the importance of the work (Maslow’s Need Hierarchy theory, Aldefer-ERG, Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory, McClelland’s Need Theory), and process theories, which deal with the explanation of how professional characteristics interact with variables such as expectancies, needs and values of the employees that need to be satisfied (Vroom’s Expectancy Theory, Locke’s Goal Setting Theory, Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics Model etc.). With respect to the effects of job satisfaction, it has been found to be associated such factors as, commitment, performance, turnover, absenteeism, well- being and general life