Improving management accountants' perception of their occupation's prestige: The role of professional identification and transformational leadership

Cameron Newton; Alicia Gilchrist

Improving management accountants' perception of their occupation's prestige: The role of professional identification and transformational leadership

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Abstract

To facilitate their potential roles as leaders, management accountants need to be perceived respectfully by the public as well as within the profession. A social constructionism perspective maintains that how management accountants think the public views their profession, known as perceived external occupational prestige (PEOP), is also important as it forms part of the social context that a management accountant uses to create their experience of work. This study identifies antecedents of PEOP in the context of the management accountancy profession. An online survey (382 participants) collected data from a number of regions including Asia, Australia/New Zealand, America, and Europe. Results indicate that high levels of management accountants professional identification represent a powerful precursor to PEOP both directly and indirectly.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016
Editors	L Bradley
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
Edition	Peer reviewed
ISBN (Print)	978-0-9875968-8-8
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016 - Brisbane, Australia, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → … https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2016-ANZAM-Conference-Program.pdf

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Conference	30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	1/01/16 → …
Other	December 6-9 2016
Internet address	https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2016-ANZAM-Conference-Program.pdf

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Newton, C., & Gilchrist, A. (2016). Improving management accountants' perception of their occupation's prestige: The role of professional identification and transformational leadership. In L. B. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016 (Peer reviewed ed.). Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).

Newton, Cameron ; Gilchrist, Alicia. / Improving management accountants' perception of their occupation's prestige: The role of professional identification and transformational leadership. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016. editor / L Bradley. Peer reviewed. ed. Australia : Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2016.

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Improving management accountants' perception of their occupation's prestige: The role of professional identification and transformational leadership. / Newton, Cameron; Gilchrist, Alicia.
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2016. ed. / L Bradley. Peer reviewed. ed. Australia: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2016.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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