This study addressed a unique staffing policy regarding accountants in Taiwanese state-run enterprises. While these accountants interact on a daily basis with colleagues in the state-run enterprises, they are recruited and evaluated by the central government. As a result, they often experienced stress due to conflicting role requirements in this dual-authority system. Results from a stervey of 324 accountants supported a proposed conceptual framework for relationships among organizational commitment, role conflict, job satisfaction, and work stress. There were 'home commitment-local commitment' interaction effects on role conflict and moderating effects of job satisfaction on conflict-stress relationship.
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