Reasons women chartered accountants leave public accounting firms prior to achieving partnership status: A qualitative analysis

Wallace, Peggy

doi:10.1002/cjas.111

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“…Heterogeneous employee groups within an organization react differently to organizational initiatives (Cafferkey et al., 2020; Lepak & Snell, 1999, 2002; Wallace, 2009), which can affect turnover behaviour. Further empirical studies are needed on ‘boomerang employees’ (Shipp et al., 2014, p. 421) and the extent to which re‐engagement can have positive organizational effects.…”

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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

Bolt

Winterton

Cafferkey

2022

Int J Management Reviews

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Labour turnover has been an important research topic in social science over the past century, involving disciplines such as human resource management, industrial relations, organizational behaviour, individual and organizational psychology, economics and health sciences. This paper presents a systematic literature review of voluntary labour turnover, providing an in-depth analysis of 1375 labour turnover studies published up to July 2019 in 142 academic journals listed in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide 2018. The analysis of theoretical and empirical labour turnover studies reveals:(1) distinctive foci in the development of labour turnover research over the past hundred years; (2) relative lack of attention to testing specific labour turnover theories; (3) a prevailing quantitative approach to identifying antecedents of labour turnover; (4) increased reliance on turnover intention as a proxy for actual turnover. This paper highlights these trends over time, providing insight into problematic areas from theoretical, methodological and empirical points of view.We suggest avenues for a more productive route to coherent theoretical, methodological and empirical development of labour turnover research.

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A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

Bolt

Winterton

Cafferkey

2022

Int J Management Reviews

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“…Our results are particularly important given that prior research suggests that agentic, stereotypically male behaviors can predict career success within organizations such as large public accounting firms (Maupin and Lehman 1994). To the extent that public accounting firms value agentic behavior and on‐campus group recruiting activities favor these behaviors more in males relative to females, this common recruiting practice can help explain why females are proportionately represented in the staff ranks but underrepresented in the senior ranks, despite heavy firm investments to reverse this trend (Anderson‐Gough et al 2005; Wallace 2009; Kornberger et al 2010).…”

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Group Recruiting Events and Gender Stereotypes in Employee Selection*

Fanning

Williams

Williamson

2021

Contemporary Accting Res

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This paper reports the results of multiple studies that together provide converging evidence in support of the theory that gender stereotypes bias employee selection during group recruiting events. Specifically, we predict and find that female (male) job candidates who exhibit stereotypically male behaviors receive lower (higher) evaluations during group recruiting events, particularly among male recruiters. Prior research suggests gender stereotypes do not bias employee selection during one-on-one interviews. However, our results suggest that evaluating job candidates in the more social context of group events can have important unintended consequences on employee selection, a key component of the accounting control environment. Given the importance of group recruiting events to inform hiring decisions across organizations such as investment banks and public accounting firms, our results contribute to a better understanding of survey and field evidence suggesting that entry-level male and female employees have different personalities at these organizations, which appear to influence their career trajectories.

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“…We have not found other studies that directly addressed this issue. However, many studies, including Gammie and Gammie [100] and Wallace [101], examined factors affecting the question of why women hold less senior positions and why women drop out from work at the peak of their careers. The reasons may be a sense of overutilization, and the need to reconcile work and duties associated with raising their families.…”

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Gender and Age as Determinants of Job Satisfaction in the Accounting Profession: Evidence from Poland

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One of the aspects of sustainable social and economic development is providing the public with the opportunity to conduct economic activity. This requires the proper development of information systems, identification of the determinants of performance, and development of the accounting profession. The aim of our study was to assess the sense of job satisfaction and prestige of the accounting profession in Poland, as seen by accountants themselves, depending on factors such as gender, age, and others. The background for the research was a country located in Central and Eastern Europe, which had just been through a political and economic transition. The study used questionnaire surveys and was based on nonparametric statistical methods: Chi-square, U Mann–Whitney, and the Kruskal–Wallis test. Herein, we provided evidence that strong feminization of the profession can be observed in Poland, and that women’s financial satisfaction with their profession was lower than that of men, in small companies as well as in companies without any foreign equity investment. We confirmed that age is more important than gender in differentiating perceived job satisfaction. The findings indicated that the assessment of the accounting profession should be considered when creating legislative solutions for sustainable social and economic development.

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Reasons women chartered accountants leave public accounting firms prior to achieving partnership status: A qualitative analysis

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

A century of labour turnover research: A systematic literature review

Group Recruiting Events and Gender Stereotypes in Employee Selection*

Gender and Age as Determinants of Job Satisfaction in the Accounting Profession: Evidence from Poland

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