When and why does relative leader-member exchange enhance service performance?: The roles of self-efficacy, team commitment, and multifoci team-level differentiation
Yoon, Mahnhee Yoon, David J.
Yoon, Mahnhee
Yoon, David J.
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2019
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LMX differentiation,Relative LMX,Self-efficacy,Team commitment,TMX differentiation
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Mahn Hee Yoon, David J. Yoon, (2019) "When and why does relative leader-member exchange enhance service performance?: The roles of self-efficacy, team commitment, and multifoci team-level differentiation", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
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Purpose: This paper aims to examine the mediating roles of self-efficacy and team commitment in linking service employees’ relative leader-member exchange (RLMX) with customer service behaviors and also the moderating roles of team-level differentiations in leader-member exchange (LMX) and team-member exchange (TMX) in influencing these mediation processes. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 467 customer-contact employees working in hotel restaurants. Hierarchical linear modeling analysis was used to test the mediation hypotheses, and moderated path was used to assess the moderated mediation. Findings: Self-efficacy and team-commitment both mediated the relationship between RLMX and customer service behaviors. The differentiations in LMX and TMX significantly interacted with RLMX in predicting self-efficacy and team commitment and also moderated the indirect effects of RLMX on customer service behaviors. Research limitations/implications: Future studies need to incorporate customers’ or immediate supervisors’ ratings of subordinates’ customer service behaviors and replicate the findings in different countries and work settings. Practical implications: Hospitality managers should foster a work environment wherein they develop equal quality relationships with their subordinates in a workgroup and promote high-quality relationships among subordinates in the workgroup to improve subordinates’ self-efficacy, team commitment and, subsequently, their customer service behaviors. Originality/value: This study incorporates both self-efficacy and team commitment as motivation-based and social exchange-based mediators, respectively, in predicting customer service behavior. It also extends the boundary condition for the mediations by considering the team-level differentiations in both vertical exchange (LMX) and horizontal exchange (TMX).
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Emerald Publishing
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International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management;2019
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0959-6119