Working Motivation and Working Process Development in Relation to the Quality of Accounting Data among Financial and Accounting Officers under the Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior, NorthernRegion
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This research aimed to study the relationship between work motivation and the quality of accounting data, as well as the relationship between work process development and the quality of accounting data among financial and accounting officers under the Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior, Northern Region. The target group consisted of 392 provincial-level financial and accounting officers. he target population consisted of 392 provincial-level financial and accounting officers. The group responsible for evaluating the quality of accounting data comprised 17 provincial clerks from all 17 provinces in the northern region. A purposive sampling method was employed. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that 1) most respondents were female, over 40 years old, held a bachelor’s degree, and had more than 11 years of work experience. 2) including both motivating and hygiene factors, was at a high level, particularly in terms of job achievement and interpersonal relationships. 3) Work process development was high across all dimensions, especially in job training and feedback provision. The quality of accounting data was at the highest level, with the dimension related to decision-making receiving the highest mean score. 4) Hypothesis identified that work motivation and work process development were not significantly related to the quality of accounting data.
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