UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ BUI THI THU HA THE STUDY OF ACCOUNTANTS’ TURNOVER INTENTION IN NHA TRANG MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ BUI THI THU HA THE STUDY OF ACCOUNTANTS’ TURNOVER INTENTION IN NHA TRANG ID: 22110012 MASTER OF BUSINESS (Honours) SUPERVISOR: Ass. Le Nguyen Hau Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2014 i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere thankfulness to my research advisor, As. Prof Le Nguyen Hau, for his clear and careful direction, guidance and correction to my thesis. I also thank Prof.
Nguyen Dinh Tho who exerts every effort in guiding me as well as ISB students to implement research. I would like to thank my dear colleagues, friend and classmates for their invaluable advice, help, encouragement and support during the time I was doing this thesis. Especially, I would like to give my special thanks my family for supporting me spiritually throughout my life. Ho Chi Minh City, Bui Thi Thu Ha ii TABLES OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT.
Research background and problem. Research question and objectives:. Scope of the study:. Organization of the study:.
The relationship among hypothesized variables. Job autonomy and Job satisfaction. Task interdependence and Job satisfaction. Job satisfaction and Affective commitment.
Job satisfaction and Turnover intention. Affective commitment and Turnover intention. Concept framework of the study. Conceptual variables and measurement scales.
Questionnaire’s measurement items:. Evaluation of measurement scales. Testing the reliability of variables. Scale testing by using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA).
The relationship between demographic variables and continuous variables:. Relationship between Job characteristic and Job attitude:. The Internal relationship of job attitude:. Job attitude and behaviour intention.
Limitations and Recommendation for the future research. 58 iv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.2 normal P-P of regression standardized residual. 39 v LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1: Demographic characteristic of respondents .3 EFA result of variables .4 Rotated Component Matrix.5 Correlation among factors.6 Regression analysis - ANOVA .7 Regression analysis - ANOVA .8 Regression analysis - ANOVA. 45 ABSTRACT Nowadays, role of accountants in every organizations are more and more important.
Their duties now are not restricted only to bookkeeping but they are involved in different managerial levels, analyze past, examine and evaluate present conditions and make financial decision for future activities of organizations. The purpose of this study is to examine accountants’ job satisfaction focusing on the relationship among job characteristic and job attitude, and behavioral intention represented by turnover intention of accountants in Nha Trang organizations. In this study, job characteristic is utilized with two variables which are job autonomy and task interdependence. Job attitude is utilized with two variables which are job satisfaction and affective commitment.
Behavioral intention is utilized with turnover intention. The data of this study are collected form 231 accountants who are working in Nha Trang. The study used SPSS version 20 to analyze the data. The study’s results indicate that in general the job attitude is affected by job characteristic.
The relationship within the variables of job attitude also indicated the job satisfaction has a positive relationship to affective commitment. Moreover, the relationship between Job attitude and behavioral intention was showed that affective commitment and job satisfaction have positive influence on turnover intention. Introduction It is important issue for the HR manager to control employee turnover. There are certain costs associated with replacing the existing employees like advertising, selecting, recruiting and training (Dalton, Todor, & Krackhardt, 1982).
New employees often don’t work effectively as previous workers perform. According to Dess & Shaw (2001), turnover of trained employees is social loss for the organization. Several previous research have examined job satisfaction as a foundation of turnover intentions (Mobley et al., 1979; Price and Mueller, 1981; Shore and Martin, 1989; Ghiselli et al., 2001; McBey and Karakowsky, 2001), however, these research are conducted in the United States and Canada. In addition, these research focus on hospitals, military and food-service companies.