Abstract The article focuses on job satisfaction of academic accountants. The work attributes and job satisfaction of many professional groups have been studied by behavioralists at an increasing rate in the last two decades. One group of professionals, however, that has been virtually ignored in these research efforts is the professional accountant employed throughout the country in education, government, public accounting, and industry. The article compares the satisfactions obtained by accounting educators teaching in the many and varied institutions offering programs in accounting. The job satisfaction of academic accountants and that of practitioners in the field of public accounting has been compared. A search of the literature reveals that a precise definition of motivation is somewhat elusive. In lieu of adding to the seemingly endless list of new and old interpretations of the term, for purposes of investigation, motivation has been defined as an awareness on the part of the individual of tension within him which stirs him to action intended to relieve that tension.
Carpenter et al. (Thu,) studied this question.