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The impact of various factors on the personality, job satisfaction and turnover intentions of professional accountants

Carol Dole (State University of West Georgia, Georgia, USA)
Richard G. Schroeder (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA)

Managerial Auditing Journal

ISSN: 0268-6902

Article publication date: 1 June 2001

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Abstract

Recently, several studies have appeared in the literature that have investigated various hypotheses involving the relationships between ethnicity, gender, job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and the personality characteristic termed type A. Aims to examine the relationships between personality, job satisfaction and turnover intentions, and to determine if the moderating variables – ethnicity, gender, occupational setting, and level of decision making authority – have an impact on these relationships. The study was conducted using a modified meta‐analysis. The analysis did not detect an overall significant relationship between personality and job satisfaction or turnover intentions, but did find an inverse relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intentions that was consistent with previously reported research. Neither gender nor ethnicity was found to be a significant moderating variable influencing the relationships between the primary variables; however, both occupational setting and level of decision making authority were found to have a significant impact on the relationships between the primary variables.

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Dole, C. and Schroeder, R.G. (2001), "The impact of various factors on the personality, job satisfaction and turnover intentions of professional accountants", Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/02686900110389188

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