Budget Goal Commitment Research Articles

How does budget participation affect managerial performance in the higher education sector? A mediated-moderated model

PurposeEmployee participation in budgeting enhances motivation and commitment, leading to better performance by enhancing ownership. Within Iraqi higher education institutions (HEIs), the current investigation delves into the influence of participative budgeting on managerial performance. Drawing upon goal-setting theory, this study discerns budget goal commitment as a mediating variable while also examining directive leadership as a moderator in the dynamics of this association.Design/methodology/approachThe current study used partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using SmartPLS 4.0. 373 questionnaires were collected from managers in Iraqi public universities, with 58.37% responding.FindingsThe findings show that budget goal commitment partially mediates the connection between budget participation and managerial performance. Furthermore, the results showed that directive leadership increases the positive associations between budget goal commitment and managerial performance.Originality/valueThis study expands the existing literature by shedding light on the mediating role of budget goal commitment and the moderating influence of directive leadership. It also enriches the discourse in management accounting by providing a more elucidation of how employee involvement in the budgeting process enhances managerial performance.

THE INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION ON BUDGET GOAL COMMITMENT THROUGH THE LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION IN BUDGETING AS A MEDIATOR

This study aims to investigate and analyze the influence of motivation, consisting of two dimensions, in affecting budget goal commitment through the level of participation in budgeting as a mediator. The two dimensions of motivation referred to are intrinsic motivation and controlled extrinsic motivation. Data were collected through survey-based research by distributing questionnaires to lower-level managers in the garment and textile manufacturing sector in Bandung. To analyze the data and test mediation, this study used a structural equation model (SEM) with the alternative partial least squares (PLS) method. The findings of this study indicate that both intrinsic motivation and controlled extrinsic motivation have a positive effect on the level of participation in budgeting. In addition, the level of participation in budgeting mediates the influence of each motivation dimension on budget goal commitment. Companies can take action to improve budget goal commitment by managing motivation that will impact the level of participation in budgeting.Keywords: budget goal commitment, level of participation in budgeting, motivation

Efeitos da resiliência e atitudes gerenciais na relação entre participação orçamentária e desempenho gerencial

Abstract Purpose: To analyze the effects of psychological resilience and managerial attitudes (job involvement and commitment to budget goals) on the relationship between participative budgeting and managerial performance. Originality/value: The present study innovates by providing evidence of the cognitive effects of psychological resilience, the affective effects of job involvement, and budget goal commitment on the relationship between budgetary participation and managerial performance, which is the theoretical gap explored. Design/methodology/approach: Descriptive and quantitative survey research carried out through structural equation modeling (SEM) with a sample composed of 251 controllers working in companies in Southern Brazil. Findings: The findings show that the intervening variables (psychological resilience and managerial attitudes) exert a positive influence on the tested relations. The results demonstrate that participative budgeting influences managerial performance through the cognitive effects of psychological resilience, combined with the affective effects of budget goal commitment. Job involvement enhances levels of psychological resilience and has positive effects on managerial performance. Thus, it can be concluded that budget configuration influences controllers’ resilience levels and contributes to their commitment to budget goals, as it triggers cognitive and affective reactions that increase managerial performance.

Budget participation and employee performance in real estate companies: the mediating role of budget goal commitment, trust and job satisfaction

PurposeRecent years witnessed an exponential growth of the Portuguese real estate market. This growth has generated the need to implement effective management control tools to allow companies to improve their planning and monitoring of activities. Drawing on the agency and goal-setting theories, this paper explores the impact of companies' participative budgeting processes on employee performance in the real estate industry.Design/methodology/approachFor this purpose, a questionnaire was developed and a sample of 116 employees that participate in the budgeting process of real estate organizations collected, with data analyzed using structural equation modelling.FindingsThe results show that participation in the budgeting process has an impact on employees' performance through budget goal commitment, trust and job satisfaction. However, no statistical support was found for the role of budgetary slack in this process.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted in a single industry and is based on self-reported measures of employees that participate in the budgeting process of their organizations.Practical implicationsThe findings highlight the need for real estate organizations to involve their staff in the elaboration of budgets, contributing to a higher level of commitment to established goals, job satisfaction, trust and performance. Real estate organizations should provide adequate working conditions, foster their employees' autonomy and recognize their work.Originality/valueThe findings encourage real estate companies to extend the participation in the budget process to employees and, ultimately, to mitigate the probability of budget failure.

Mediating Factors That Influence The Relation Between Budget Congruence and Managerial Performance in Public Services Universities in Indonesia

This study aimed to examine whether budget goal commitment, psychological capital, and management accounting system were able to play a role in mediating the relation between budget congruence and managerial performance in public services universities in Indonesia. This study used a quantitative survey approach; the sample of the study consisted of 82 leaders from State Islamic Universities in the province of East Java, Indonesia. The data were analyzed by using a causal mediation analysis procedure. The result found that psychological capital and management accounting systems were able to mediate the budget congruence-managerial performance relation. Meanwhile, budget goal commitment in the context of public sector budgeting has not succeeded in proving its role as a mediating variable. Further analysis showed that contingency theory is still relevant to be used in business and public budgeting in relation to different behavioural conditions. In addition, this research has implications for evaluating the managerial performance of leaders in public services universities in Indonesia to pay attention on managerial involvement at lower levels in achieving organizational goals.

The contingent roles of perceived budget fairness, budget goal commitment and vertical information sharing in driving work performance

PurposeDrawing on equity theory, social exchange theory and goal setting theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the contingencies on the link between employees’ budgetary participation and their work performance. Specifically, this study addresses the research questions: whether vertical information sharing and budget goal commitment mediate the relationship between employees’ budgetary participation and their work performance; and whether employees’ perceived budget fairness can strengthen the positive effects of budgetary participation on vertical information sharing and budget goal commitment.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected from a sample of 556 low to middle level managers of business organizations in Vietnam. The research model and its hypotheses were tested using PLS-SEM. The standardized root mean squared residual value of the composite model was employed to assess model fit. Common method bias was also checked using the marker-variable approach.FindingsThis study has two key findings: both vertical information sharing and budget goal commitment partially mediate the positive effects of budgetary participation on work performance; and both dimensions of perceived budget fairness (distributive and procedural) elevate the positive relationships of budgetary participation – vertical information sharing and budgetary participation – budget goal commitment.Practical implicationsThe findings could benefit businesses in Vietnam and similar market contexts. Specifically, top management needs to select a proper level of budgetary participation that can facilitate information sharing vertically within the organization and motivate their employees to be more committed to achieve budget goals. Besides, the top management also needs to ensure that their employees perceive the fairness in the budgeting process.Originality/valueThe study contributes a greater understanding as regards the mediating roles of vertical information sharing and budget goal commitment as well as the moderating role of perceived budget fairness on the relationship between employees’ participation in the budgetary process and their work performance, especially in the context of an emerging market – Vietnam. Overall, this study contributes to the management and accounting literature with insights concerning a more complex process explaining employees’ work performance and triggered by their budgetary participation.

The Relationship Between Budget Participation and Managerial Performance: The Role of Moderator Variables Interaction

The purpose of this research is to find out the effect of budget participation on managerial performance which is moderated by leadership style, obedience pressure and budget goal commitment. This research utilises the design of the influence among moderating variables. Data collection techniques utilised questionnaires which were circulated to leaders and civil servants who participated in budgeting for the 19 agencies /authorities and offices in Manado City totaling 173 respondents. Data were analyzed by Moderated Regression Analysis test. The findings of the study exhibited that the effect of budget participation on managerial performance becomes stronger through leadership styles, obedience pressure and budget goal commitment. Keywords: Budget participation, managerial performance, leadership style, obedience pressure, budget goal commitment

Linking Budgetary Participation to Budgetary Slack: An Indonesia Perspective

This study examines how budget participation influences budget slack creation propensity through the mediation of distributive and procedural fairness, managerial trust, and budget goal commitment. The data was collected from 103 respondents holding managerial position in 49 Indonesian distribution companies. Despite its limitations, this study has both academic and practical implications. The study adds to the budgetary slack literature in an Indonesian country which has not been widely researched. The result suggests that budget participation influences distributive and procedural fairness, which interact with one another and influence managerial trust. Managerial trust and procedural fairness together influence budget goal commitment, which decreases propensity of budget slack creation. The findings presented in this study should have important implications for Indonesia companies to reduce slack creation and enhance commitment and trust, it is suggested to improve procedural fairness, one of which by implementing budget participation.

The effect of participatory budgeting on the performance of government officials (An empirical study in West Lombok District)

This study aimed to examine effects of three intervening variable directly and indirectly, that are job relevant information, budget goal commitment, and job satisfaction on relationship between budgetary participation and apparatus performance. The inconsistencies of the previous research of the effect of the budgetary participation on the performance become the motivation of the present research. The present research is a survey in which data were collected using a questionnaire distributed to the SKPD Structural Officials of consisting of Echelon II, Echelon III and Echelon IV at the Regional Government of West Lombok Regency. The populations are 673 persons structural officials of Echelon II, Echelon III and Echelon IV. Respondents was selected by purposive sampling method in which officers involved in the budgeting process, of the 122 distributed questionnaires, all questionnaires were returned. The analysis method was variant-based SEM using SmartPLS Version 2.0 M3. The instruments have been examined for its validity and reliability. The results show that the budgetary participation has influence with the apparatus performance but not significant, the budgetary participation has significant effect on job relevant information, job relevant information has significant effect on the apparatus performance, budgetary participation has significant effect on budget goal commitment, budget goal commitment has significant effect on the apparatus performance, budgetary participation has significant effect on job satisfaction, and job satisfaction has significant effect on the apparatus performance. The research could prove the budgetary participation has correlation with the apparatus performance through job relevant information, budget goal commitment, and job satisfaction. The implication of this research that the increased performance of the apparatus can be done by increasing the budgetary participation through job relevant information, budget goal commitment, and job satisfaction.

An analysis of budgetary goals impacting organizational performance

This study proposes a conceptual review of how budgetary goals impact organizational performance. The aim of this study is to get a better understanding of the direct and indirect relationship between the organization’s decision -making process and operational performances. Setting the budget particularly influences subordinates’ budget goal levels and motivations (i.e., budget goal acceptance and budget goal commitment), which ultimately enhances the organization’s performance. To test these relationships, data were collected using the three perspectives approach: budgetary goal, budgetary participation and budgetary evaluation. The study provided evidence that perception of fairness mediates the relation between the levels of budget participation and goal commitment, whereas goal commitment mediates the relation between fairness perceptions and performance. At the end of the article, there are some implications for SMEs industries and some suggestions for future studies.

An investigation of Budget-Related Antecedents of Job Performance

This study aims to investigate budget related antecedents of job performance of managers. For this purpose, the effect of budgetary participation, budget goal commitment and information sharing on job performance of managers were examined. The sample consists of 104 managers who are responsible from the budgets of their units in different private enterprises. Most of these enterprises are operating in automotive sector and located in Marmara Region of Turkey. Survey data was analyzed with confirmatory factor analyses and Structural Equation Modeling. Results indicate that budgetary participation has statistically significant and positive impact on job performance. It also positively affects budget goal commitment and information sharing. Budget goal commitment and information sharing have significant and positive impact on job performance. In addition, budget goal commitment positively affects information sharing of managers. Analyses also revealed that budget goal commitment and information sharing have partial mediation effect on the relationship between budgetary participation and job performance.

Budget goal commitment, clinical managers’ use of budget information and performance

Despite the importance placed on accounting as a means to influence performance in public healthcare, there is still a lot to be learned about the role of management accounting in clinical managers’ work behavior and their link with organizational performance. The article aims at analyzing the motivational role of budgetary participation and the intervening role of individuals’ mental states and behaviors in influencing the relationship between budgetary participation and performance.According to the goal-setting theory, SEM technique was used to test the relationships among variables. The data were collected by a survey conducted in an Italian hospital.The results show that: (i) budgetary participation does not directly influence the use of budget information, but the latter is encouraged by the level of budget goal commitment which, as a result, is influenced by the positive motivational consequences of participative budgeting; (ii) budget goal commitment does not directly influence performance, but the relationship is mediated by the use of budget information. This study contributes to health policy and management accounting literature and has significant policy implications. Mainly, the findings prove that the introduction of business-like techniques in the healthcare sector can improve performance if attitudinal and behavioral variables are adequately stimulated.

Roles of Budgetary Participation on Leader’s Performance: A Study Case in Ternate

This study aims to analyze the relationship between budgetary participation with leadership performance. The population of this study was under the leadership of mid-level and intermediate level on SKPD (Regional Work Unit) Ternate. Random sampling techniques use proportional sampling and analytical methods used are factor analysis. The research proves that the higher the participation in the preparation of the budget will further improve the performance of the leadership. Meanwhile, budget goal commitment does not affect the relationship between budgetary participation with leadership performance, this is because the possible existence of distrust to achieve budget targets.

ANALISIS PARTISIPASI ANGGARAN TERHADAP BUDGET SLACK: PERSEPSI KEWAJARAN PROSEDURAL DAN DISTRIBUTIVE, KEPERCAYAAN MANAJERIAL, DAN KOMITMEN TUJUAN ANGGARAN SEBAGAI FAKTOR INTERVENING

The aim this research to examine of the relationships between budget participation that influence manager’s propensity to create budget slack: procedural and distributive fairness, managerial trust, and budget goal commitment as intervening variable. The results show that budget participation impacts both procedural fairness and distributive fairness which, affect trust. Both, procedural and distributive fairness, are found to have a significant impact on budget goal commitment, and negatively influences managers’ propensity to create slack. Further analyses indicatethat the direct relationship between budget participation and manager’s propensity to create slack was insignificant, which suggests that fairness and goal commitment mediate the relationship between budget participation and manager’s propensity to create slack.Keywords: Budget, Distributive Fairness, Procedural Fairness, Trust, GoalCommitment, Budget Slack.

The interaction between motivational disposition and participative budgeting

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study of how dispositional factors of motivation rooted in personality interact with participative budgeting to affect budget goal commitment.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on a survey among bank managers from a Scandinavian regional bank. To assess the motivational disposition of the bank managers, the short version of the multi‐motive grid test (MMG‐S) is used. The management accounting variables are measured by traditional and well‐tested instruments.FindingsThe results indicate that the effect of increased budgetary participation on budget goal commitment is largest for subordinates with a high need for power or a low need for affiliation. For subordinates with a low need for power or a high need for affiliation the effect of budgetary participation is small.Research limitations/implicationsThe study confirms that the interaction between personal‐level psychological variables, e.g. motives, and situational variables, e.g. budget participation, determine action, e.g. budget commitment. Taking personal‐level variables into consideration in research on management accounting systems are thus important in studies which include individual level factors.Practical implicationsThe practical implications are that a general management concept, as budget participation, should be applied with knowledge of how situational factors will interact with the personal characteristics of the involved employees.Originality/valueMost management accounting research that uses psychological theory, focuses on the effects of management accounting on the minds and behaviour of individuals and not on the effect of individual's minds on management accounting as this paper does. The paper is the first to use the MMG‐S in a management accounting study.

Testing a model of the antecedents and consequences of budgetary participation on job performance

This paper examines the effect of antecedents (such as task exceptions and task analysability) and consequences (such as job-relevant information, budget goal level, budget goal acceptance and budget goal commitment) of budgetary participation on job performance. The responses of 135 middle-level managers, drawn from a cross- section of manufacturing firms, to a survey questionnaire, were analysed by using a structural equation modelling (SEM) technique. The results of this study suggest that task exceptions and task analysability are important antecedents of budgetary participation. The results further suggest that the cognitive effect of participation in goal- setting allows subordinates to gather, exchange and share job-relevant information. The availability of job-relevant information allows subordinates to develop effective strategies or plans, which will help them to exert effort over time, in an attempt to attain their goals. The results support the proposition that setting difficult but attainable budget goals increases subordinates? budget goal level, acceptance, and commitment to the budget goal, which in turn improves job performance.

Testing a model of the motivational role of budgetary participation on job performance: a goal setting theory analysis

This study adopts a goal setting theory as the theoretical framework for studying the motivational effect of budgetary participation on job performance. This study proposes that budgetary participation affects job performance via two intervening variables, namely budget goal difficulty and budget goal commitment. The results show that budgetary participation enhances job performance directly and indirectly via budget goal difficulty and budget goal commitment.

Budget Goal Commitment and Informational Effects of Budget Participation on Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

This paper examines budget goal commitment and informational effects of budget participation on performance. A structural model is proposed and tested that includes budget participation, budget goal commitment, job-relevant information, and job performance variables. The data were collected by survey questionnaires. Seventy-nine middle-level managers, drawn randomly from a cross-section of manufacturing companies in Australia, participated in the project. A structural equation modeling technique was used to test hypothesized linkages. Support was found for the effects of budget goal commitment and informational roles of budget participation on job performance.