scholarly journals New Strategies in the New Millennium: Servant Leadership As Enhancer of Service Climate and Customer Service Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Linuesa-Langreo ◽  
Pablo Ruiz-Palomino ◽  
Dioni Elche-Hortelano
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
New Millennium

Transmission of Service from Leader to Followers: A Parallel Multiple Mediator Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 769-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingqing Liu ◽  
Junxi Shi
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Service Behavior ◽  
Multiple Mediator Model ◽  
The Relationship

We applied social learning theory and social exchange theory to examine a parallel multiple mediator model of how perceived servant leadership affects employee service performance. Data collected from 404 supervisor–subordinate dyads revealed that service climate (environmental factor) and the leader–member relationship (psychological factor) played a parallel mediation role in the relationship between servant leadership and employee service performance. Our findings expand both research on service objects and perspectives on service industries, and provide a new opportunity to clarify the essence of service behavior. The implications of these results and study limitations are discussed.

Servant leadership and proactive customer service performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1330-1347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijiao Ye ◽  
Yijing Lyu ◽  
Yanzhen He
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Harmonious Passion ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Passion For Work

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of servant leadership on hospitality employees’ proactive customer service performance (PCSP) by focusing on the sequential mediating roles of harmonious passion and customer orientation and the moderating role of others’ approval of contingent self-esteem. Design/methodology/approach This study uses structural equation modeling with the four-wave data collected from eight Chinese hotels. Findings This study finds that servant leadership can promote hospitality employees’ PCSP by sequentially boosting their harmonious passion for work and customer orientation. Moreover, others’ approval of contingent self-esteem strengthens servant leadership’s effect on harmonious passion for work. Originality/value First, this study extends the servant leadership research by extending its outcome to hospitality employees’ PCSP. Second, this study enriches the understanding of the mediating mechanism between servant leadership and PCSP. Third, this study advances the research on servant leadership by identifying the moderating effect of employees’ others’ approval of contingent self-esteem between servant leadership and harmonious passion.

Customer-Oriented Constructive Deviance as a Reaction to Organizational Injustice Toward Customers

2021 ◽  
pp. 193896552110123
Author(s):  
Taeshik Gong ◽  
Pengchang Sun ◽  
Min Jung Kang
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organizational Injustice

To date, research on the deontic model and third-party reactions to injustice has focused primarily on individuals’ tendency to punish the transgressor. In this study, we seek to extend the extant research by arguing that punishment may not be the only deontic reaction and that third-party observers of injustice should engage in activities that help the victim. More specifically, we explore employee’s customer-oriented constructive deviance as a reaction to organizational injustice toward customers. We also investigate how this deviance influences customer satisfaction. In addition, we explore service climate, driven by servant leadership as a moderator on the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational unfairness and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The study collected three-level survey data from 95 hotel managers, 396 employees, and 1,848 customers. We find that servant leadership increases service climate, which in turn strengthens the relationship between organizational injustice toward customers and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The findings also reveal that customer-oriented constructive deviance increases perceived service quality, leading to customer satisfaction. Our study significantly contributes to the emerging theory concerning customer-oriented constructive deviance by explaining the antecedents, consequences, and moderators. The study also helps managers deal with customer-oriented constructive deviance in the workplace.

Does transformational leadership always matter in frontline service roles?

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keo Mony Sok ◽  
Phyra Sok ◽  
Lan Snell ◽  
Pingping Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
High Level ◽  
Frontline Service Employees ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Frontline Service

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of frontline service employees (FSEs) motivation (enjoyment of work and driven to work) and ability (customer service ability) in the relationship between TFL and employee service performance. Design/methodology/approach This is a survey-based study which involves 534 FSEs and 135 supervisors in a hair salon setting. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings Results show that TFL is significantly related to employee service performance; this relationship is enhanced with the presence of driven to work; yet, it is neutralized with the presence of enjoyment of work. Further, the three-way interaction of TFL, enjoyment of work and customer service ability as well as TFL driven to work, and customer service ability are negatively associated with employee service performance. Practical implications The results advance service managers’ understanding of the importance of FSEs motivation and ability if they are to fully reap the benefits from their FSEs. The role of leader is not always effective in all situations. FSEs with high level of enjoyment of work and customer service ability would least rely on the guidance and support from the supervisors. Originality/value This research is one of the first to examine the role of subordinate’s characteristics (motivation – enjoyment of work and driven to work and ability – customer service ability) as the key moderators in the relationship between TFL and employee service performance.

scholarly journals SISTEM CUSTOMER SERVICE PT KERETA API INDONESIA (PERSERO) BERBASIS CHATBOT MENGGUNAKAN KOMPUTASI BAHASA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Nia Shafira ◽  
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Etin Martiana ◽  
Rengga Asmara
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Language Modeling ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Automatic Information

As the main train service provider company in Indonesia, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) has many customers who need information. In order to maintain customer loyalty, PT KAI must respond quickly and be adaptive to technology to provide the best service to customers. Limited human resources make PT KAI unable to serve customers simultaneously, so customers often have to wait for a response. In order to provide the best service, automatic messages are needed in order to help customer service performance respond quickly and at the same time with no cost, access anytime and anywhere. This study proposes a new approach with chatbots as a medium for conveying automatic information quickly and simultaneously. This chatbot is made with a computational language that focuses on natural language modeling and cosine similarity as a method for calculating the proximity of inputs and databases. This research can help PT KAI's customer service workers to answer customer needs automatically.

scholarly journals How Mindfulness and Servant Leadership Affect Customer-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Service Climate as Potential Mediator

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness

One aspect of competitive advantage that is now the main focus of the company is human resources. To improve the performance of organizations related to service excellence, it takes work behavior that exceeds the demands of work, namely Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior. This article is Proposal for Doctoral Colloquia that aims to prove the variables that influence Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior and obtain a model of the structural relationship between Mindfulness, Servant Leadership, Service Climate, and Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior. This study is explanatory survey research with a mixed-method approach. The participants of this study are the supervisor of railway transportation provider in Jakarta, Indonesia. The sampling technique is multistage sampling (a combination of cluster sampling and stratified sampling). The data will be collected by self-report surveys. The data will be analyzed by using Structural Equation Modelling with Lisrel 8.7 software. The results from this study will be proved and built a structural model of the effect of mindfulness and servant leadership on Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior through a service climate. The novelty of this study is the addition of contextual factors such as service climate as a mediator variable in testing the effect of mindfulness on workplace outcomes such as Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior and the influence of servant leadership on Customer Oriented-Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and the development of dispositional mindfulness instrument for Indonesian employees.

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