Work Overload and Turnover Intention of Junior Auditors in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia
The South East Asian Journal of Management, 9(2), 108-124, 2015
Partially presented in The 8th International Conference on Business and Management Research, Seoul, South Korea, 2013
17 Pages Posted: 9 Jan 2014 Last revised: 1 Dec 2015
Date Written: October 31, 2015
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze how work overload influences turnover intentions of newly hired public accountants. Job satisfaction, work related stress and work life conflicts are used as mediating variable between work overload and turnover intention. This study employed 141 auditors from several accounting firms operating in the Greater Jakarta region. Six proposed hypotheses was tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results showed that work overload has significant effect in increasing turnover intention through both job satisfaction and work related stress. Contrarily, work overload does not influence turnover intention through work life balance. This may be due to the nature of the respondents, in which a majority of the newly hired accountants employed in this study are unmarried.
Keywords: work overload, turnover intention, job satisfaction, work related stress, work life balance, public accountants, Indonesia
JEL Classification: M12, M49, M54
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