Human Resource Management Issues in Accounting and Auditing Firms: a Research Perspective: A Research Perspective

This title was first published in 2001: Focusing on human resource management practices in the multinational multi-service providers, this text presents some complex academic research in an accessible form. This book collates and reviews, in a manner designed to be both accessible and comprehensible to the interested reader, the extensive body of academic literature which has been developed since the 1980s. In addition, it provides a perspective on human resource management issues, practices and problems based in part on interviews with senior personnel. Most suitable for scholars and practitioners of business and management, social policy/sociology and economics. "Cover"--"Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Executive Summary" -- "1 INTRODUCTION" -- "2 THE AUDIT ENVIRONMENT" -- "Auditing and Accounting and Audit Firms" -- "Audit Engagements" -- "Audit or Assurance Services?" -- "Contingency and Accountability" -- "3 THE RESEARCH STUDIES: ISSUES OF METHODOLOGY AND GENERALISABILITY" -- "The Nature of the Research" -- "Issues of Measurement and Methodology" -- "The Transferability of the Results of US Studies" -- "Accountants or Auditors?" -- "4 RESEARCH FINDINGS" -- "Introduction" -- "4.1 PERSONALITY AND NEEDS" -- "Personality" -- "Needs" -- "Summary" -- "4.2 STRESS" -- "Environmental and Organizational Factors" -- "Individual Factors" -- "Job-Related Tension" -- "Summary" -- "4.3 SOCIALISATION AND FEEDBACK" -- "Summary" -- "4.4 CAREER DEVELOPMENT" -- "Summary" -- "4.5 LEADERSHIP AND MENTORING" -- "Leadership" -- "Mentoring" -- "Summary" -- "4.6 JOB SATISFACTION" -- "Summary" -- "4.7 PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT" -- "Professional Commitment" -- "Organizational Commitment" -- "Compatibility of Professional and Organizational Commitment" -- "Summary" -- "4.8 STAFF TURNOVER" -- "Summary" -- "4.9 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL" -- "Summary" -- "4.10 DETERMINANTS OF JOB PERFORMANCE" -- "Job Performance Models" -- "Attribution Theory" -- "Summary" -- "5 CONCLUSIONS" -- "Career Development" -- "Personal Attitudes and Characteristics" -- "Education and Examinations" -- "Acculturation and Socialisation" -- "Staffing Patterns" -- "The Multi-Disciplinary Global Firm" -- "Management Structure and Practice" -- "The Value of Research" -- "APPENDIX