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Article: The impact of exercised responsibility, experience, autonomy, and role ambiguity on job performance in public accounting.
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- Journal of Managerial Issues
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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The major investment for accounting firms is in human capital. The personal attributes of the professionals employed and the conditions under which they work lead to important consequences for the accounting firms, for the professionals themselves, and for those who rely on their work. Certain attributes and work conditions may lead to different levels of performance and various psychological states, which also may influence whether employees choose to stay with the organization. Research on job performance in public accounting has been selective in scope. Subsets of variables such as experience, autonomy, role ambiguity, and job performance have been studied, but there ...