Perception of Meaningful Work and Job Satisfaction of Accounting Faculty Members
Keywords:
Meaning, meaningful work, job satisfaction, accounting academics, university education. JEL Codes: M40, M10
Abstract
Meaningful work is the values formed by the person's expectations about their workplace. Job satisfaction is the positive feelings one has for one's job. This study aims to measure whether accounting academicians find their jobs meaningful and their satisfaction levels in their careers. The sample size is 164 people who are accounting academics in Turkey. The study measured the relationship between the meaningful job and job satisfaction, and the subdimension of the meaningful job was examined. Significant relationships were found between some sub-dimensions of meaningful work and job satisfaction.
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Weick, K. (1976). Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative science quarterly, 2, 1-19.
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Wrzesniewski, A., McCauley, C., Rozin, P., & Schwartz, B. (1997). Jobs, careers, and callings: People’s relations to their work. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 21-33.
Azırı, B. (2011). Job satisfaction: A literature review. Management research and practice, 3(4), 77-86.
Barnes, R. C. (2005). Franklian Psychology: An Introduction to Logotherapy. In G. E. Rice
(Ed.), Logotherapy and the Human Spirit (pp. 31–49). Abilene, TX: Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.
Bendassolli, P. F., Borges-Andrade, J. E., Alves, J. S. C. & Torres, T. D. L. (2015). Meaningful work scale in creative industries: a confirmatory factor analysis. Psico-USF, 20(1), 1-12.
Bentley, P. J., Coates, H., Dobson, I., Goedegebuure, L. & Meek, V. L. (2012). Job satisfaction around the academic world. Vol. 7. Springer Science & Business Media.
Berman, E. M., West, J. P., Maurice, W. & Richter, N. (2002). Workplace relations: friendship patterns and consequences (according to managers). Public administration review, 62(2), 217-230.
Blake, A. A., Dexter, C., Kinsey, R. & Parker S. (2018). Meaningful work and mental health: Job satisfaction as a moderator. Journal of mental health, 27(1), 38-44.
Bozkurt, Ö.& Yurt, İ. (2013). A study to determine the organizational commitment levels of academicians. journal of management sciences [Akademisyenlerin örgütsel bağlılık düzeylerini belirlemeye yönelik bir araştırma. Yönetim bilimleri dergisi], 11(22), 121-139.
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Chalofsky, N. (2003). An emerging construct for meaningful work. Human resource development international journal, 6(1), 69-83.
Clark, B. R. (1983). The higher education system. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Clausen, T. & Borg, V. (2010). Do positive work-related states mediate the association between psychological work characteristics and turnover? A longitudinal analysis. International journal of stress management, 17(4), 308-324.
Cohen, M. & March, J. (1974). Leadership and ambiguity. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Çelik, M. (2011). A theoretical approach to the job satisfaction. Polish Journal of management studies, (4), 7-15.
Davis, S. M. (1984). Managing corporate culture. Cambridge: HarperCollins Publishers.
Demirbaş, B. & Haşit, G. (2016). Loneliness at work and its effect on intention to quit: an application on academics. Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences [İş yerinde yalnızlık ve işten ayrılma niyetine etkisi: akademisyenler üzerine bir uygulama. Anadolu üniversitesi sosyal bilimler dergisi], 16 (1), 137-158.
Dik, B. J. & Duffy, R. D. (2009). Calling and vocation at work: Definitions and prospects for research and practice. The counseling psychologist, 37(3), 424-450.
Dik, B. J. & Shimizu, A. B. (2019). Multiple meanings of calling: Next steps for studying an evolving construct. Journal of career assessment, 27(2), 323-336.
Enders, J. (2007). The academic profession. Forest, J. J. F. & Altbach, P. G. (Eds.). In international handbook of higher education (pp.5-21). Dordrecht: Springer.
Eren, E. (2001). Organizational behavior and management psychology. 7. Edition. Istanbul: Beta Publishing. [Örgütsel davranış ve yönetim psikolojisi. 7. Bası. İstanbul: Beta Basım Yayım].
Frankl, V. E. (2006). Çev. Kushner H. Man’s search for meaning. Boston: Beacon Press.
Gephart, R. P., Topal Ç. & Zhang, Z. (2010). Future-oriented sense-making: Temporalities and institutional legitimation. Process, sense-making, and organizing, (p.p. 275-312). Oxford University Press.
Ghislieri, C., Cortese, C. G., Molino, M. & Gatti, P. (2019). The relationships of meaningful work and narcissistic leadership with nurses’ job satisfaction. Journal of nursing management. 27(8), 1691-1699.
Göçen, A. & Terzi, R. (2019). Meaningful business scale for educational organizations. Gazi University Journal of Gazi Education Faculty [Eğitim örgütleri için anlamlı iş ölçeği. Gazi Üniversitesi Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi], 39(3), 1487-1512.
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Hagedorn, L. S. (2012). The meaning of academic life. The review of higher education, 35(3), 485-512.
Hu, J. & Hirsh, J. B. (2017). Accepting lower salaries for meaningful work. Frontiers in Psychology, (8), 1-10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01649/full
Judge, T. A., Locke, E. A., Durham, C. C. & Kluger, A. N. (1998). Dispositional effects on job and life
satisfaction: the role of core evaluations. Journal of applied psychology, 83(1), 17-34
Kalkan, M., & Vural, B. M. (2019). Learned meaninglessness scale: Validity and reliability study [Öğrenilmiş anlamsızlık ölçeği: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması]. Electronic Journal of Social Sciences (electronic) [Elektronik sosyal bilimler dergisi (elektronik)], 8(72), 1713-1723.
Keser, A., & Bilir, K. B. Ö. (2019). Turkish reliability and validity study of job satisfaction scale [İş tatmini ölçeğinin türkçe güvenilirlik ve geçerlilik çalışması]. Kirklareli University Journal of Social Sciences [Kırklareli Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi], 3(3), 229-239, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/909948
Lips-Wiersma, M., Haar, J. & Wright, S. (2020). The effect of fairness, responsible leadership and worthy work on multiple dimensions of meaningful work. Journal of business ethics, 161(1), 35-52
Locke, E. A. (1969). What is job satisfaction? Organizational behavior and human performance, (4), 309-336.
Luthans, F. (1992). Organizational behavior. 6. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill Inc. https://bdpad.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/fred-luthans-organizational-behavior-_-an-evidence-based-approach-twelfth-edition-mcgraw-hill_irwin-2010.pdf
Martela, F. & Pessi, A. B. (2018). Significant work is about self-realization and broader purpose: defining the key dimensions of meaningful work. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(363), 1-15.
May, D. R., Gilson, R. L. & Harter, L. M. (2004). The psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety and availability and the engagement of the human spirit at work. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology, 77(1), 11-37.
Noe, R. A., Clarke, A. D. & Klein, H. J. (2014). Learning in the twenty-first-century workplace. Annual review of organizational psychology and organizational behavior, (1), 245-275.
Nord, W. R., Brief, A. P., Atieh, J. M. & Doherty, E. M. (1990), Studying meanings of work: The case of work values. Meanings of occupational work (pp. 21-64). Lexington: Lexington Books.
Nunnally, J. C. (1994). Psychometric theory 3E. India: Tata McGraw-Hill Education
Owens, B. P., Johnson, M. D. & Mitchell, T. R. (2013). Expressed humility in organizations: Implications for performance, teams, and leadership. Organization Science, 24(5), 1517-1538.
Pfeffer, J. (2003). Business and the spirit. Handbook of workplace spirituality and organizational performance. (pp.29-45). New York: ME Sharp
Rajput, S., Singhal, M., & Tiwari, S. (2016)., “Job satisfaction and employee loyalty: A study of academicians,” Asian Journal Management, 7(2), 1-5.
Rosa, A. D., Vianello, M.& Anselmi, P. (2019). Longitudinal predictors of the development of a calling: new evidence for the a posteriori hypothesis. Journal of Vocational Behavior, (114), 44-56.
Rosovsky, H. (2003). University: A dean explains. Trans.: Süreyya Ersoy (16th Edition). Ankara: Tübitak Popular Science Books [Üniversite: Bir dekan anlatıyor. Çev.: Süreyya Ersoy (16. Baskı). Ankara: Tübitak Popüler Bilim Kitapları]. https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=kyejSwAACAAJ&dq=).+%C3%9Cniversite:+Bir+dekan+anlat%C4%B1yor&hl=tr&sa=X&redir_esc=y
Rosso, B. D., Dekas, K. H. & Wrzesniewski, A. (2010). On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review. Research in organizational behavior, (30), 91-127.
Rothausen, T. J. & Henderson, K. E. (2019). Meaning-based job-related well-being: exploring a meaningful work conceptualization of job satisfaction. Journal of business and psychology, 34(3), 357-376.
Schultz, D. P. & Schultz, S. E. (1990). Psychology and industry today. Mac Millan: New York.
Sipahi, B., Yurtkoru, E. S. & Çinko, M. (2008). Data analysis with SPSS in social sciences [Sosyal bilimlerde SPSS ile veri analizi]. İstanbul: Beta Yayınları.
Spector, P. E. (1997). Job satisfaction: Application, assessment, causes, and consequences, Vol. 3. California: Sage.
Steger, M. F., Dik, B. J. & Duffy, R. D. (2012). Measuring meaningful work: The work and meaning inventory (WAMI). Journal of career assessment, 20(3), 322- 337.
Strawser, J. A., Flagg, J. C., & Holmes, S. A. (2000). Job perceptions and turnover behavior of tenure-track accounting educators. Journal of accounting education, 18(4), 315-340.
Vesty, G., Sridharan, V. G., Northcott, D. & Dellaportas, S. (2018). Burnout among university accounting educators in Australia and New Zealand: Determinants and implications. Accounting & Finance, 58(1), 255-277.
Weick, K. (1976). Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative science quarterly, 2, 1-19.
Weick, K. E. (1995). Sense-making in organizations. USA: Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Wishner, J. (1991). The influence of the meaning of work, coping behavior and life satisfaction on the job satisfaction of school psychologists in a large. Urban System (Urban Schools). (Dissertation Thesis), New York University, US.
Wrzesniewski, A., McCauley, C., Rozin, P., & Schwartz, B. (1997). Jobs, careers, and callings: People’s relations to their work. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 21-33.
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2022-03-10
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Ertuğrul, A. N. (2022). Perception of Meaningful Work and Job Satisfaction of Accounting Faculty Members. Amazonia Investiga, 11(50), 232-244. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.50.02.22
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