Retention of employees of the millennial generation is becoming an increasing problem for employers throughout the world. It has been found in prior research that higher levels of job satisfaction by employees in organisations was a key determinant in improving employee retention levels. This had the effect of increasing the ability of organisations to be competitive in the market. The focus of this study is to determine the levels of job satisfaction of newly qualified chartered accountants. It then goes further by analysing the factors which influence their overall levels of job satisfaction. The results are valuable for employers of chartered accountants from the millennial generation in that it allows employers to better understand and improve working conditions in their organisations in order to increase overall job satisfaction levels, reduce employee turnover and ultimately increase organisations’ competitive positions in the market. The study focused on analysing the overall levels of job satisfaction of chartered accountants classified as millennials employed inside and outside of academia as these were identified as the two broad groups within which chartered accountants were employed. The findings found that chartered accountants employed in academia experienced a significantly higher level of job satisfaction than their counterparts employed outside of academia. The factors found to be most important in an ideal job for newly qualified CAs were remuneration, flexibility, ability to grow professionally, working hours, meaningfulness of work, and being challenged at work. The results found that chartered accountants employed in academia experienced significantly higher levels of fulfilment in the following factors; remuneration, flexibility, working hours, and meaningfulness of work.

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保留新近聘请的注册会计师：南非案例研究

对于全世界的雇主来说，千禧一代员工的留任正成为一个日益严重的问题。在先前的研究中发现，组织中员工更高的工作满意度是提高员工保留水平的关键因素。这具有提高组织在市场上竞争的能力的作用。这项研究的重点是确定新任注册会计师的工作满意度水平。然后，它通过分析影响他们总体工作满意度水平的因素来进一步发展。这一结果对于千禧一代的注册会计师的雇主而言是宝贵的，因为它可以使雇主更好地了解和改善其组织中的工作条件，从而提高整体工作满意度，减少员工流动率并最终提高组织在市场上的竞争地位。该研究专注于分析在学术界内部和外部被划分为千禧一代的注册会计师的工作满意度的总体水平，因为这些人被确定为雇用注册会计师的两个大类。调查结果发现，与非学术界工作的注册会计师相比，学术界雇用的特许会计师的工作满意度显着提高。对于理想的工作而言，对于新合格的CA来说，最重要的因素是薪酬，灵活性，专业成长能力，工作时间，工作意义和工作挑战。结果发现，受以下因素影响，学术界的注册会计师的履职水平明显提高。薪酬，灵活性，工作时间和工作意义。