A study on the job satisfaction of non-managerial level employees from the top four accounting firms in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Bagsic, Patrick Johann G., Co, Steven Lloyd Y., Monteclaro, Mark Lester M., Tan, Niikki Camille C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Job satisfaction > Philippines; Accounting firms > Philippines > Management; Accounting firms > Employees > Rating of; Accounting
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11087
• Institution: De La Salle University

Job satisfaction merely represents one of the major areas in which managers are challenged because it will have a large impact on the quality of work and productivity of an employee in doing his job. This thesis provides a study on the job satisfaction of non-managerial level employees of the top four accounting firms in the Philippines. Job satisfaction of non-managerial employees in the top four accounting firm caught our interest and led us to studying this area because our group will soon become one of these employees since the profession is the same with what we’re taking up which is Bachelor of Science in Accountancy. Upon initial research, we have found many international and local articles and studies that give their own explanations of job satisfaction. The objective of conducting this study is to empirically study the importance and effect of physical, psychological, and environmental factors on job satisfaction of non-managerial level employees in the top four accounting firms in the Philippines and have a hierarchy of these factors pertaining to the significance of each in relation to job satisfaction. The study was done by conducting a survey of 120 accountants in the top four accounting firms in the Philippines. With the data that was gathered, ordinal logistic regression was used to determine if the factors in the study really do have a significant impact on the job satisfaction of these employees. With the results that followed, the conclusion that the research group got from the study was that not all the factors mentioned had a significant impact on job satisfaction. Out of all ten factors discussed in the study, only seven factors had a significant impact on job satisfaction and promotional opportunities in the workplace had the highest impact on job satisfaction while work responsibilities or distribution of work throughout the employees had the least impact on job satisfaction. This meant that management should not only focus on the physical factors like payments but should also focus on the other factors that may affect the job satisfaction of their employees in the firm.