{"id":3442,"date":"2023-03-31T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:50:17","slug":"customer-incivility-for-frontline-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2023\/03\/31\/customer-incivility-for-frontline-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer incivility for frontline employees,"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research just published<\/p>\n

Boukis, A., Koritos, C., Papastathopoulos, A., Buhalis, D., 2023, Customer incivility for frontline employees, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 100, May 2023, 103555 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annals.2023.103555<\/a> OPEN ACCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h2>\n
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This work proposes identity theory as a novel theoretical lens for understanding frontline employees’ responses to customer incivility in tourism and hospitality. We advance pertinent research by demonstrating that customer incivility constitutes a dual identity threat (individual\/collective threat) for frontline employees. Two experimental studies reveal that: customer incivility towards frontline employees’ individual identity affects their psychological responses more adversely than their citizenship behavior; non-monetary rewards are more effective at reducing the adverse effects of customer incivility on frontline employees’ psychological responses (than monetary rewards); finally, allowing frontline employees to choose the reward they deem most appropriate enhances both their psychological responses and citizenship behavior. Based on these results a four-step process is proposed to help managers dealing with customer incivility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Highlights<\/h2>\n
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\u2022Assess the impact of customer incivility on frontline employees’ identity<\/dt>\n
\u2022Customer threats to both individual and collective identities are explored.<\/dt>\n
\u2022Employees’ responses vary based on the identity level that is affected<\/dt>\n
\u2022Rewards mitigate the harmful effect of customer incivility on employees.<\/dt>\n
\u2022Reward choice reduces the adverse effect of customer incivility on employees.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Boukis, A., Koritos, C., Papastathopoulos, A., Buhalis, D., 2023, Customer incivility for frontline employees, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 100, May 2023, 103555 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annals.2023.103555<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research just published Boukis, A., Koritos, C., Papastathopoulos, A., Buhalis, D., 2023, Customer incivility for frontline employees, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 100, May 2023, 103555 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annals.2023.103555 OPEN ACCESS… Read more » about Customer incivility for frontline employees,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co-creation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}