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How Leaders' Motivation Transfers to Customer Service Representatives
Wieseke, Jan
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Kraus, Florian
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Alavi, Sascha
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Kessler-Thönes, Tino
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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1094670510397177
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URL:
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/109467...
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Additional URL:
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258158722...
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Document Type:
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Article
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Year of publication:
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2011
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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Journal of Service Research : JSR
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Volume:
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14
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Issue number:
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2
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Page range:
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214-233
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Place of publication:
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Chicago, IL
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Publishing house:
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Sage Periodicals Press
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ISSN:
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1094-6705 , 1552-7379
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Business School > Dr. Werner Jackstädt Stiftungslehrstuhl für ABWL u. Marketing IV (Kraus)
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Keywords (English):
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motivation , motivation transfer , leader-follower dyad
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Abstract:
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Motivating customer service representatives (CSRs) to their highest performance levels is major task of service unit managers. However, previous studies focused on the impact of leader behavior on follower motivation, while the influence of leader motivation on follower motivation has not been investigated yet. Thus, the authors develop and test a multilevel framework for the motivation spillover principle, which holds that the three components of Vroom’s motivation theory transfer from managers to CSRs. The authors apply this framework to the context of service technology adoption and test it with a
matched multilevel sample of 387 service unit managers, 1,018 CSRs, and objective company records. The results support the notion of a motivation spillover from managers to CSRs, which exists incrementally beyond the direct effect of manager’s adoption behavior on CSR’s adoption. However, not all motivation components transfer unconditionally but are contingent on charismatic leadership and manager-CSR similarity - a finding that implies for researchers that an undifferentiated view of motivation in multilevel settings might not suffice. For organizations, the findings suggest that managers are important multipliers of motivation and thus organizations should direct their motivation efforts toward middle-level managers, as they might turn into serious roadblocks to CSR motivation.
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Wieseke, Jan
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Kraus, Florian
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Alavi, Sascha
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Kessler-Thönes, Tino
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Wieseke, Jan
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Kraus, Florian
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Alavi, Sascha
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Kessler-Thönes, Tino
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Wieseke, Jan ; Kraus, Florian  ORCID: 0000-0001-6807-6544 ; Alavi, Sascha ; Kessler-Thönes, Tino
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