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This paper presents narrative data collected from seniors and managers/senior managers of five international professional services firms. Participants voluntarily wrote comments on the face of a survey instrument that collected objective format data. Comments discuss a variety of aspects of the work environment. This study provides a view of the accounting workplace that focuses on individual perceptions and experiences. The narrative data is organized into categories addressing the nature of the job, compensation, organizational culture and personal sacrifice. Overall, the environment portrayed by the individual comments is one perceived by the respondents to be difficult and challenging: too much work, insufficient rewards, lack of appreciation, limited control by the individual, and poor-quality management. The paper discusses the comments and relates them to contemporary events, theory and research.

This paper introduces this special issue and initially provides some contextual background to the field of psychodynamics, its significance to organisational studies and the understanding of behaviour in organizations. The internationally-based papers in this special issue are then introduced and summarised.

One of the problems facing systems administrators and security auditors is that a security test/audit can generate a vast quantity of information that needs to be stored, analysed and cross referenced for later use. The current state‐of‐the‐art in security audit tools does not allow for information from multiple different tools to be shared and integrated. This paper aims to develop an Extensible Markup Language (XML)‐based architecture that is capable of encoding information from a variety of disparate heterogeneous sources and then unifying and integrating them into a single SQL database schema.

The paper demonstrates how, through the application of the architecture, large quantities of security related information can be captured within a single database schema. This database can then be used to ensure that systems are conforming to an organisation's network security policy.

This type of data integration and data unification within a vulnerability assessment/security audit is currently not possible; this leads to confusion and omissions in the security audit process.

This paper develops a data integration and unification architecture that will allow data from multiple vulnerability assessment tools to be integrated into a single unified picture of the security state of a network of interconnected computer systems.

Posits that work‐family issues have received research attention during the last two decades. Discusses work‐family conflict stating this usually involves lack of job and family satisfaction, with more inner‐family conflicts. States a number of companies have shown promise on the work‐family challenge.