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ERIC Number: EJ945889
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jul
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0021-9010
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Transforming Service Employees and Climate: A Multilevel, Multisource Examination of Transformational Leadership in Building Long-Term Service Relationships
Liao, Hui; Chuang, Aichia
Journal of Applied Psychology, v92 n4 p1006-1019 Jul 2007
This longitudinal field study integrates the theories of transformational leadership (TFL) and relationship marketing to examine how TFL influences employee service performance and customer relationship outcomes by transforming both (at the micro level) the service employees' attitudes and (at the macro level) the work unit's service climate. Results revealed that, at the individual level, managers' TFL was positively related to employee service performance, which, in turn, positively predicted customers' expressed intention to maintain a long-term service relationship with the service employee and manager-reported number of the employee's long-term customers measured 9 months later. In addition, the relationship between TFL and employee service performance was partially mediated by employee self-efficacy. Furthermore, store-level TFL was positively associated with store-level service climate, and service climate further enhanced the relationship between individual-level TFL and employee service performance. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire
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