Workplace owners’ expectation and satisfaction of accountingmajor high vocational diploma students

Abstract

he objectives of this research were to study expectation and satisfaction by workplace owners of accounting-major high vocational diploma students; to study relationship between expectation and satisfaction of accounting-major high vocational diploma students. Conceptual framework was based on Vocational Education Standards, under the framework from the International Accounting Education Standards Board 3— primary occupation development—technical competency and Vocational Education Standards. Stratified random sampling technique was applied to select 396 workplaces of diverse workplaces in Udon Thani province to answer self-reported questionnaire. Data were analyzed by statistics inferential analysis consisted of t-test, F-test and correlation analysis. Research findings revealed that workplaces like Government, or private sectors had statistically significantly different on expectation and satisfaction by the workplace owners of these accounting-major high vocational diploma students; and relationship between workplace expectation and workplace satisfaction was statistically significant. These results implied that workplaces had expectation of accounting-major high vocational diploma students; therefore, affecting on satisfaction of the students after being employed.