Customization of the service experience: the role of the frontline employee

LA Bettencourt, K Gwinner - International journal of service industry …, 1996 - emerald.com
… that may be used by frontline employees in customizing the service experience. As previously
proposed, a quality performance relies on service personnel recognizing “the subtle (or …

Influence of the work relationship between frontline employees and their immediate supervisor on customers' service experience

PB Kim, G Gazzoli, H Qu, CS Kim - Journal of Hospitality Marketing …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… of organizational citizenship behaviors such as employee voice could further our understanding
of why LMX influences the customer service experience. Furthermore, future research …

Tailoring to customers' needs: Understanding how to promote an adaptive service experience with frontline employees

KM Wilder, JE Collier… - Journal of Service …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… on how and when to adapt a customer’s service experience. Drawing on role theory, our study
… a service experience: (1) recognition of customer needs through employee empathy and …

Don't forget about the frontline employee during the COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary insights and a research agenda on market shocks

CM Voorhees, PW Fombelle… - Journal of Service …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… To baseline employee morale, we had FLEs comment on a recent service experience and
to share their thoughts and outlook on the world. Overall, FLEs are quite conflicted, and the …

Exploring front-line employee contributions to service innovation

J Karlsson, P Skålén - European Journal of Marketing, 2015 - emerald.com
… regarding how front-line employee involvement should be … We argue that front-line employee
involvement in service … We found a couple of employees who had the experience and …

Key drivers of frontline employee generation of ideas for customer service improvement

CR Lages, NF Piercy - Journal of Service Research, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Anchored in the service-dominant logic and service innovation literature, this study investigates
the drivers of employee generation of ideas for service improvement (GISI). Employee

Emotional convergence in service relationships: the shared frontline experience of customers and employees

AR Zablah, NJ Sirianni, D Korschun… - Journal of Service …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
frontline experience. The proposed model also suggests that firms stand to benefit from the
shared frontline experience … that occur between a customer and frontline employee (FLE) are …

The service models of frontline employees

R Di Mascio - Journal of Marketing, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… Respondent (cell phone retailer, three years’ customer service experience): Customer
service is all about resolving customer needs. Having said that, there's always one or two … …

Does standardized service fit all? Novel service encounter in frontline employee-customer interface

J Lai, S S. Lui, A HY Hon - International Journal of Contemporary …, 2014 - emerald.com
… This idea is creative in that it tries to solve a customer problem that is unrelated to making
a sale straight away but, ultimately, adds to the service experience. The template shows that …

Linkage between frontline employee service competence scale and customer perceptions of service quality

YC Wu, CS Tsai, HW Hsiung, KY Chen - Journal of Services …, 2015 - emerald.com
… In Study 2, to ensure respondents’ memories were fresh, they were asked to focus on
their last FLE service experience from one of the relevant service sectors (ie insurance, bank …