The relationship between Machiavellianism and auditor’s job performance

The relationship between Machiavellianism and auditor’s job performance Abstract This research investigates the effect of machiavellianism on auditor’s job performance. The main goal of this study is to expend awareness and knowledge in accounting.Theoretical materials of this study have been prepared via archival studies and while research data was collected via a survey-based approach. Research tool is questionnaire. The auditors are the statistical society in this study and the time limit is in year 2016. This study will investigate the effect of machiavellianism on job performance by 5 hypothesis. The dependent variable is job performance and the independent variable is machiavellianism. Also control variables of this research is based on gender , work place, work level, work experience, age and the level of educations. The research hypothesis will be investigated by structural equations modeling. We found that there is a negatively significant effect of Machiavellianism on job performance and also there is a significant effect of Machiavellianism on job performance’ s dimensions that includes task performance, contextual performance, adaptive performance and counterproductive work behavior.