Journal of Economics, Business, & Accountancy Ventura
Vol 16, No 2 (2013): August 2013

MULTIDIMENSIONAL CAUSAL PATH ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION IN INTENTION TO LEAVE BY ACCOUNTANTS

Ivan A. Setiawan (STIE STAN Indonesia Mandiri Bandung)
Imam Ghozali (Diponegoro University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2013

Abstract

The turnover phenomenon of professional accountants has become an important issue both amongpractitioners and academics. This study investigates the phenomenon of turnover by using constructsmultidimensional organizational commitment and job satisfaction is seen as a factor affecting theturnover, as well as using constructs of intention to leave as a proxy for turnover. Two theoreticalmodels are confirmed: Theoretical Model 1 puts multidimensional organizational commitment asantecedents to job satisfaction, and Theoretical Model 2 is the construct of job satisfaction as an antecedentto multidimensional organizational commitment. Turnover intention is the final output onboth models. This employed 107 professional accountants from various public accounting firms inIndonesia and these were analyzed by means of structural equation model (SEM). It shows that theTheoretical Model 2 is better than Theoretical Model 1. The parameter estimates indicate that a positiverelationship between job satisfaction and affective commitment. There were negative relationshipbetween job satisfaction and low alternative commitment, between job satisfaction and high sacrificecommitment, and between job satisfaction and affective commitment with intention to leave.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jebav

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Journal of Economics, Business and Accountancy (JEBAV) addresses economics, business, banking, management and accounting issues that are new developments in business excellence and best practices, and methodologies to determine these in manufacturing and financial service organisations. It considers ...