How and when servant leadership promotes service innovation: A moderated mediation model

F Li, B Liu, W Lin, X Wei, Z Xu - Tourism Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on social learning theory, the current study examined how and when servant
leadership could promote employee service innovative behavior (SIB) in the hospitality …

Why sabotage customers who mistreat you? Activated hostility and subsequent devaluation of targets as a moral disengagement mechanism.

YSS Huang, RL Greenbaum, JM Bonner… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
We utilize the social intuitionist approach to moral judgment and moral disengagement
theory to understand why and when employees sabotage customers. We contend that when …

The influence of service employees' nonverbal communication on customer-employee rapport in the service encounter

CY Lin, JSC Lin - Journal of Service Management, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose Rapport between service employees and customers has been suggested to be an
important determinant of customer relationship management, yet existing marketing …

Not my circus, not my monkeys? Frontline employee perceptions of customer deviant behaviors and service firms' guardianship policies

PB Fennell, MP Lorenz… - Journal of Service …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent disruptions, labor shortages, and fiscal pressures, especially in retail service
environments, have necessitated and highlighted changes in the roles and responsibilities …

The path from role clarity to job satisfaction: natural acting and the moderating impact of perceived fairness of compensation in services

M Chung, YH Jang, SA Edelson - Service Business, 2021 - Springer
Extant studies examining emotional labor and job satisfaction have generally been limited
by examining only surface and deep acting. This study builds upon extant studies by …

Necessary evil: a strategy to manage dysfunctional customer behavior

YS Huang, X Fang, R Liu - Journal of Services Marketing, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and when used by employees
influences witnessing customers' willingness to spread positive word of mouth (WOM) …

How Service Employees' Mindfulness Links to Task Performance through Psychological Resilience, Deep Acting, and Customer-Oriented Behavior

JS Kim, HJ Park - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the specific pathways through which mindfulness influences task
performance, focusing on the sequential mediating roles of psychological resilience …

Pepper, just show me the way! How robotic shopping assistants should look and act

N Fukawa, YS Huang, BJ Babin - Journal of Consumer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial intelligence enables modern robots to serve as service and sales assistants.
Today's robotic shopping assistants (RSAs) can appear either humanoid or non‐humanoid …

Personality trait determinants of frontline employee customer orientation and job performance: a Russian study

NJ Ashill, RW Semaan, T Gibbs… - International Journal of …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Despite major market-orientated reforms to enhance the competitive advantage of
Russian domestic firms, the antecedents and consequences of frontline employee (FLE) …

Is there a danger of making customers feel too empowered? Exploring the double-edged sword of customer orientation and creative benefits

Y Liu, TJH Mayerhofer, A Marchand… - European Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to explore the extent to which customer orientation and creative
benefits offered by a firm may weaken rather than strengthen customer engagement. In …