WORK LIFE HARMONY AKUNTAN: KAPAN DAN MENGAPA?

Abstract

Accountant profession, especially consultant, is known with inflexible and overloaded work stereotypes. Thus, accountants tend to experience difficulties in balancing time spent in aspects of work and others. Therefore, the concept of work life harmony is more in line with accountants, where everyone has their respective compositions for harmony. The company strives to facilitate through various work life programs. However, those programs can’t accommodate all employee’s needs. So, companies arrange organizational values and activities aimed at empowering accountants. Through empowerment, accountants can help themselves to overcome conflicts and achieve harmony. This study used qualitative interpretive paradigm and aims to understand the linkages of organizational values and employee empowerment to the achievement of work life harmony for PT S accountants. The results indicate that organizational values translated into various empowerment activities contribute to the achievement of accountant harmony, which appears to be subjective and psychological well being of accountants. The organization still has various limitations in supporting that achievement. At a stage where everything depends on accountants’s intrinsic motivation, the organization can no longer help that achievement. Therefore, it is important for accountants to strive to achieve their own harmony.