ترجمه مقاله نقش ضروری ارتباطات 6G با چشم انداز صنعت 4.0
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ترجمه مقاله پایداری توسعه شهری، تعدیل ساختار صنعتی و کارایی کاربری زمین
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ABSTRACT
This study investigates the effects of customers’ uncivil treatments on frontline retail employees’ emotions, deviant behaviors and relationship with the retail organization. Our theoretical model is based on both marketing and personnel management literatures. 415 frontline retailing American employees answered our questionnaire. Employees treated uncivilly by customers feel angry but have to hide their negative emotions, which leads them to emotional exhaustion and deviant behaviors. Paradoxically, employees’ strong commitment to their retailing organization brings about more deviant behaviors. We propose some managerial strategies to cope with uncivil customers, as well as future research on this important and under-researched topic.
Conclusions
This research focuses on the effects of uncivil customers’ behavior on the employees’ organizational deviance through the mediation of both employees’ surface acting and negative emotions (anger and emotional exhaustion). It bridges a gap between the marketing and management literatures by focusing on the intertwined relations between three parties, that is, shoppers, employees and retail firms. Bridging these literatures may permit to consider the problem of customers’ incivility under the dual perspectives of employees and the organization. Some researchers contend that surface acting is here to stay because it is useful to the retailers: “impression management strategies such as surface acting, even though they are inauthentic, are more effective in stimulating positive customer response than deep acting strategies that do not hide negative emotions” (Albrecht et al., 2016, p. 720). We contend that this is a shortsighted perspective : uncivil customers behaviors bring about a hefty amount of losses for retailers : £2 billion annually in the United Kingdom (Hoel et al., 2001) and from US$ 0.6 to $3.6 million per 1000 employees in Australia (Hoel et al., 2003). Some research suggests that customer misbehavior is the norm rather than the exception (Harris and Reynolds, 2004).