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Today’s competition conditions and management paradigms are changing rapidly and organizations’ performances are determined not only by managers’ job performances but also employers’. In addition, studies reveal that employers’ individual job performances are among the important factors affecting organizational success. Main aim of this study is to reveal the cause and effect relationships among accountants’ professional satisfaction, professional commitment and individual job performances. In addition, whether professional commitment is a mediator between professional satisfaction and individual job performance is investigated in the scope of this study. Relationships between professional satisfaction, professional commitment and individual job performance are investigated using data obtained from randomly selected 977 accountants’. Results of the analysis suggest that professional satisfaction positively affects accountants’ affective, continuous and normative commitments to the profession; and affective, continuous and normative commitment to the profession positively affect accountants’ individual job performances. Results also show that professional satisfaction negatively affects professional turnover intention. The results of mediation analyses further indicate that professional commitment supports mediates the relationship between professional satisfaction and individual job performance.

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