Title

Manager personality, manager service quality orientation, and service climate: Test of a model

Authors

Authors

A. N. Salvaggio; B. Schneider; L. H. Nishii; D. M. Mayer; A. Ramesh;J. S. Lyon

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Appl. Psychol.

Keywords

service climate; core self-evaluations; personality; CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS; JOB-PERFORMANCE; LIFE SATISFACTION; RESPONSE; BIAS; BIG 5; BEHAVIOR; SAFETY; LEVEL; PERCEPTIONS; RELIABILITY; Psychology, Applied; Management

Abstract

This article conceptually and empirically explores the relationships among manager personality, manager service quality orientation, and climate for customer service. Data were collected from 1,486 employees and 145 managers in grocery store departments (N = 145) to test the authors' theoretical model. Largely consistent with hypotheses, results revealed that core self-evaluations were positively related to managers service quality orientation, even after dimensions of the Big Five model of personality were controlled, and that service quality orientation fully mediated the relationship between personality and global service climate. Implications for personality and organizational climate research are discussed.

Journal Title

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volume

92

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

1741

Last Page

1750

WOS Identifier

WOS:000250885400021

ISSN

0021-9010

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