As the worlds’ population ages, more frontline employees (FLEs) will be required in the aged care industry. Notably, workers at residential aged care services are susceptible to workplace stress (Biggins, 2019) due to the long hours, low wages, and physical and emotional demands of helping the elderly and incapacitated (Proust, 2019). This poses challenges for the industry to manage the welfare of its employees.

Introduction Frontline employees (FLEs) play a very important role in service delivery due to the interactive nature of the service encounter. They span the boundary between the firm and its customers and service firms rely on their FLEs to deliver their promise and create a favorable company image to customers (e.g., Bitner et al., 1990). Considerable previous research addresses how effective management practices and supportive work environments will induce positive attitudinal and behavioral responses of FLEs, which will, in turn, contribute to the positive customer perceptions of the service providers (e.g., Hartline and Ferrell 1996). In other words, the relationship quality or the exchange quality of the employee-organization interface will have a spillover effect on that of the customer-organization interface. But the question examined here is: can this spillover effect occur in an opposite way? In other words, will firms’ treatment of customers shape the employees’ relationship with their firms? With a few exceptions, limited research has paid attention to this inverse relationship. The purpose of our research is threefold: (1) to investigate whether employee perception of customer injustice can influence employees’ psychological contract violation with the firm, (2) to examine whether role conflict mediates the relationship between customer injustice and psychological contract violation, and (3) to explore the moderating impacts of customer identification on the mediation effect of role conflict. Method We conducted an experiment using a 2 (customer injustice: high vs. low) x 2 (customer identification: high vs. low) between-subjects factorial design. Two hundred participants were recruited from Amazon Mturk. Twelve responses were deemed unusable and excluded from the study, resulting in a final sample size of 188 (53.7 % female; age ranging from 18 to 65). Each participant was randomly assigned to one of the four experimental scenarios that corresponded to a combination of the two manipulated factors at either high or low level. All manipulations worked as intended. To analyze the moderating effect of customer identification via role conflict, we used the procedure of Hayes (2013) to estimate a conditional process model. We also controlled for the effects of empathy, income, and ethnicity. To test whether the indirect effect of injustice on contract violation is moderated by customer identification, an index of moderated mediation proposed by Hayes (2014) was calculated. To test whether this index is statistically significantly from zero, a 95% confidence interval was calculated for this index by bootstrapping 5,000 samples. The confidence interval of this index is .0162 to 1.1105, indicating the indirect effect is significantly moderated by identification. The results showed that the indirect effect of customer injustice via role conflict on contract violation is only significant (p< .05) when customer identification is high. In other words, when customer identification is low, the effect of injustice on contract violation is not mediated through role conflict. Research implications Our research provides empirical evidence that FLEs are sensitive to the treatment of customers by the firm. The traditional wisdom in the sales literature is that “if you treat your employees well, they will treat your customers well.” Our study complements this “trickle-down effect” in the extant literature and demonstrates a “bottom-up effect” that the firm’s unfair treatment of customers will adversely influence employees’ relationship with their firm. Our research also offers important insights into why customer injustice may lead to FLEs’ perceived psychological contract violation with the firm. Previous sales research suggests that role conflict can be influenced by an organization’s structure and culture as well as salespeople’s job characteristics (Singh 1998; Barnes et al. 2006). Our study complements these findings and identifies perceived customer injustice as a new role stressor of FLEs. In addition, our research reveals that the mediating effect of role conflict is moderated by customer identification. Customer identification increases the likelihood that customer injustice would manifest in a psychological contract violation via increased role conflict. The findings of this research also have several managerial implications. First, service and sales managers should be aware of the negative consequence of unfair customer treatment by the firm and how it may eventually jeopardize employees’ relationship with the firm. Second, managers should consult with their FLEs when implementing any new customerfacing policies to understand how these policies would impact FLEs’ other duties of serving customers. Finally, FLEs may form strong identification with their customers, which may amplify the negative consequence of customer injustice on psychological contract violation. Managers should try to counteract FLEs’ over-identification with customers by increasing organizational identification.

Europe’s unfavorable economic environment demands extensive innovation from the services sector. Despite the benefits that innovations (i.e., constant emphasis on new ideas, risk-taking and proactiveness) may accrue, such as superior performance and competitive advantage, they can also bring about increased workload, work-related pressures and high levels of overall job stress for service employees. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of internal-external fit (Huselid, 1995) and the involvement approach (Boxall and Macky, 2014), and by adopting a service employee-centered perspective that is currently missing from the innovation, services, and management literature (Messersmith and Wales, 2013), we examine the impact of innovation on different types of job stressors in the services industry. Data was collected from 293 employees working in various managerial positions in the hospitality sector. All measures used were based on prior studies and were assessed for reliability using composite reliability (CR) and for validity using factor loadings and average variance extracted (AVE). A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested the measurement of the model and Structural Equation Modeling was employed to examine the proposed relationships. We find that, in a highly innovative service work setting where employees are carefully selected, job positions are carefully designed and high-involvement employee practices are employed, service employees are less likely to report unclear job responsibilities, lack of resources and excessive work demands. While the effects of innovation on organizational performance have been extensively examined, there is scant evidence on the influence of organizational level innovativeness on non-financial outcomes such as employee outcomes (Wales, Gupta, and Mousa, 2013). This is despite the calls within the literature for more studies considering the central role of service employee attitudes and work behaviors in regard to productivity, job performance and turnover (Levy, 2003).

This study aims to extend previous research on the structural relationships between organisational empowerment and frontline employees’ behaviors，and explores the role of the self-regulating process and its impact on service recovery performance by using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Following the procedure of applying fsQCA (data calibration, truth table construction and fsQCA analysis) on the data of express mail firms in China, the results explore the combination of several causes as solutions that lead to both high and low service recovery performance. The findings show that the organisational empowerment is a sufficient antecedent for high service recovery performance, especially in case where frontline employee have full awareness and positive work involvement. Moreover, in the context of organisational empowerment, a reasonable level of emotional exhaustion represents a positive impact on performance in service recovery. This study offers more comprehensive insights for practitioners to empower frontline employees and monitor their emotions and behaviors using more appropriate approaches.

본 연구는 개인의 학습조직활동이 지식경영활동과 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석한 실증연구 이다. 이를 위한 연구 방법으로서 본 논문은 서비스/제조/IT 대기업 종사자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시 하였고, 이를 토대로 산업별 변수 간의 관계에 대하여 비교·분석하였다. 본 연구에서 사용한 용어에 대한 정의를 살펴보면, 혁신행동은 새로운 공정 혹은 제품 아이디어를 찾고 개발하며, 아이디어를 실행하기 위해 필요한 자금을 확보하고, 적합한 실행 계획과 일정을 수립하고 스케 줄을 개발하는 행동을 의미한다. 급변하는 경영환경 속에서 기업이 지속적인 경쟁우위를 획득하기 위해 서는 다양한 방법으로 조직의 변화와 혁신을 추구하여야 하며, 이러한 혁신행동의 선행요인으로서 지식 경영활동과 학습조직활동이 중요하게 인지되었다. 이상과 같이 실시된 연구 결과를 종합하여 살펴보면, 서비스업과 제조업, IT업은 개인의 학습조직 활동 이 지식경영활동과 혁신행동에 모두 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 지식경영활동도 혁신 행동에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 각 집단 별로 분석해보면, 개인의 학습조직활동이 지식경 영활동에 미치는 영향에서는 제조업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 또한 지식경영활동이 혁신행동에 미치 는 영향에 있어서는 IT업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났고, 개인의 학습조직활동이 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 서는 제조업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 위와 같은 분석결과를 토대로, 본 연구는 학습조직활 동이 산업별 종사자들에게 미치는 차이점과 변수 간의 관계에 대하여 중점적으로 논의하였고 그 원인을 제시하였다.

본 연구에서는 직장인의 음주행위와 조직응집력 간의 관계에 있어 음주동기의 조절효과를 살펴보기 위하여 음주행위는 독립변수, 조직응집력은 종속변수로 설정하였으며, 그리고 조절변수로는 음주동기의 하위변인인 고양동기, 대처동기, 동조동기, 그리고 사교동기를 선정하였다. 연구의 결과, 음주행위가 조직응집력에는 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났으나, 조직응집력에 대한 음주동기는 부분적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 먼저, 고양동기와 사교동기의 경우 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 대처동기는 유의한 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 반면, 동조동기는 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 음주행위와 조직 응집력 간의 관계에 있어 음주동기의 조절효과를 검증한 결과 음주동기의 사교동기만이 유의한 정(+)의 조절효과를 보이는 것으로 나타났으며, 고양동기, 대처동기, 그리고 동조동기는 조절효과가 없는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과로 보아 음주가 조직응집력에 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하여 조직에 긍정적 영향을 미치지 못할 것으로 보았으나, 음주행위와 사교동기의 상호작용 효과를 통해 나타난 바와 같이 음주동기의 차이에 따라 조직 내 구성원의 태도에 다르게 영향을 미침을 시사하고 있다. 즉, 구성원 간의 상호작용을 위한 목적의 수단으로써 음주를 하게 된다면 음주가 긍정적 역할을 하는 것은 물론 조직 구성원 간의 응집력을 높이는 데 있어 유용한 도구로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

This research tends to answer the following question: How do multinational corporations transmit their service brand to the local employees of the host country? Service brand has been discussed from the point of internal marketing, which ensures that employees can demonstrate the authentic value of the service brand in their attitudes and behaviors. However, when a corporation attempts to transmit the service brand across borders, there needs to be a balance between globalization and localization. This research intends to build a systematic internal marketing mechanism from the viewpoint of internal marketing, international service branding and subsidiary brand-specific transformational leadership. This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to conduct an in-depth case study and questionnaire survey. This research provides the following theoretical and managerial contributions. Firstly, it proposes a systematic internal marketing mechanism to transmit the service brand across international borders. This includes a brand-specific leadership with cultural sensitivity, a brand norm positively led by the leader and an organizational learning system, which influences the practice of the brand norms. Secondly, in order to transmit the international service brand successfully, this paper argues that subsidiaries’ leaders should have cultural sensitivity and demonstrate a brand-specific transformational leadership style. Thirdly, the paper finds and verifies that brand-specific transformational leadership has a positive effect on the brand norms and organizational learning, which in turn affect employee brand behavior and attitude toward the company’s core brand value. Managerially, the systematic internal marketing mechanism developed by this research can enlighten those service companies who intend to expand their international scope and ascertain their service brand value is transmitted accurately and executed locally.

Courier and logistics services such as customer contact employees (customer-contact employee) of the attitudes and behavior of the customer satisfaction level of service quality evaluation and a very big impact. In this study, using a typical customer contact employees, and to target the delivery service industry employees the organization's service orientation and customer orientation by examining the impact on the quality of companies within the organization for growth and development needs and the importance of service orientation will be trying out for. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, the chief executive of the organization to configure a service orientation and a detailed understanding of the factors that determine this by managing the organization to effectively come up with a way to make and ultimately the organization's service orientation, organizational culture can be positioned as effort should be taken. Second, service companies through regular training and education to maintain a certain level of service quality should be. Third, the service organization's service orientation is not a fad or a means of sustain and develop the company's survival strategy is to get out. To do this, good communication between the field and management can be achieved by a variety of channels to be established, and management's willingness to provoke sympathy for the employees should be provided.

This study examines the impact of the perception that employees of contract foodservice management companies have of internal marketing on service quality. Questionnaires were delivered to 291 employees employed in foodservice management companies. High perception item of internal marketing was 'value of formula education program' (3.36 points), whereas 'adequate allowance disbursement' (2.62 points) and 'various vacation benefits' (2.66 points) scored low. High service quality items for customers were 'kindness to customers' (3.89 points) and 'willingness to help customers' (3.89 points), whereas 'comprehension of customers' special requests' (3.63 point) and ['meeting customer expectations'] (3.64 points) scored low. The internal marketing conceived by employees of contract foodservice management companies has a positive influence on service quality. The most influential internal marketing variable to affect service quality was 'communication' followed by 'education/environment' and 'fringe benefits/[decisive] delegation'.

The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting the job satisfaction of cook(n= 173) employed in school food service and to propose a plan to improve school foodservice quality. The subjects were cook employed by school in Chungchon province, Gwangju area. The average of cook's job satisfaction was 3.06, the rank factor for nature of work(4.25). the co-workers(3.28), the organic environment(3.17), promotion welfare payment(2.31), the physical environment(2.29) shown respectively. The highest satisfaction with nature of work and organic environment was indicated in the areas of the group of higher age, and cooks who received college education showed significantly lower job satisfaction in physical environment. The highest satisfaction for promotion welfare payment, and physical environment shown in the group of higher length of service who receive higher wages. The groups of regular job shown higher result in the nature of work(3.46>2.94), organic environment(3.46>2.94), promotion welfare payment(2.88>1.94) comparing to irregular job. It is necessary to elevate cook's low satisfaction for improving their work efficiency and the quality of elementary school foodservice.

Work motivation is critical for ensuring sustainability of any business firm. Motivated personnel essentially helps an organization achieve its organizational goal and objective. Hence, it has become an essential duty for business managers and management committees to identify the motivating factors that would strongly affect their employees. The purpose of the current research is to identify which are the factors that motivate service employees most at their workplace in Bangladesh. The study has used survey questionnaires to collect data from service employees. Convenience sampling is used for data collection. A total of 240 questionnaires were distributed and 183 completed questionnaires were returned (response rate: 77%). The study used purposeful motivating factors, which are ranked (from 1 to 10) by the service employees according to the significance of the factors. Mean value is applied to determine the most crucial motivating factor, where the factor with lowest mean value is considered as the highest significant motivating factor. Results reveal that job certainty, career growth and advancement opportunity, and quality working environment have been the most crucial and influential motivating factors for the service employees. The study adequately underlines the necessity of motivational factors and provides some guidelines to keep employees motivated.

The purpose of this study focuses on finding the influences of social capital on personal happiness by studying service industry employees. This current study utilized a questionnaire survey method which was used to collect the analysis data, from July 20 to August 10 in 2019. 281 questionnaires were gathered in Korea and the statistical analysis was conducted. This study recognized social capital as 3 independent variables and personal happiness as a dependent variable. Social capital is composed of the social network, social trust and social norms. First, the social network consisted of the satisfaction degree in one`s social relations and the social interaction degree. Second, social trust is composed of the trust degree with ones neighbors in the same local area. Last, social norms are consisted of reciprocity, participation and a sense of belonging one feels in the same society. The findings of this study were as follows: first, it was found that social network, social trust, and social norms made affirmative influences on personal happiness of the employees. Second, the social network and social norms made statistically significant influences with personal happiness, but social trust was shown to not have similar influence.