Research on the impact of satisfaction on job performance has proliferated over the last few years; however, the results are deemed inconclusive. Here, a total of 240 accounting professionals participated in this study through a questionnaire survey. | The relationship between job satisfaction and performance at work case of Tunisian accounting firms Accounting 6 2020 231 240 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac The relationship between job satisfaction and performance at work case of Tunisian accounting firms lassaad Abdelmoulaa and Sami Boudabbousa aFSEG Sfax Tunisia CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Research on the impact of satisfaction on job performance has proliferated over the last few years Received February 2 2019 however the results are deemed inconclusive. Here a total of 240 accounting professionals Received in revised format participated in this study through a questionnaire survey. The four career stages were integrated into February 27 2020 our model as a moderating variable of the relationship between job satisfaction and performance. The Accepted March 8 2020 Available online results prove that the further we move through career stages the stronger the relationship between March 8 2020 satisfaction and performance at work is. Keywords Job satisfaction The exploration stage The establishment stage The maintenance stage The disengagement stage 2020 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada Job performance 1. Introduction The effect of job satisfaction on performance has been a debatable topic in the previous literature Raza et al. 2015 . Over the last few decades several research works have addressed this topic however the results are mixed. Most of the previous studies were conducted on teachers Indhumathi 2011 doctors Khan et al. 2012 nurses Platis et al. 2015 and employees in general Almutairi et al. 2013 . However to date the accounting profession has not attracted much interest. Accordingly the present study aimed to fill this gap by studying the impact of job satisfaction on the performance of accounting professionals in the Tunisian context. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows Section 1outlines the literature
