Structural relationships between organizational service orientation, contact employee job satisfaction and citizenship behavior
International Journal of Service Industry Management
ISSN: 0956-4233
Article publication date: 1 January 2006
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge of how organization service orientation (OSO) influences job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of customer‐contact employees.
Design/methodology/approach
Questionnaires were carried out in 149 hotel firms. One customer‐contact employee and the manager provide the data in each hotel. The constructs were measured using existing scales. Structural equation models were used to examine the effects.
Findings
The empirical results enable one to identify the dimensions of OSO on which the managers of hotel firms should place greater emphasis in order to stimulate employee job satisfaction and OCB.
Research limitations/implications
The results are limited by the specificity of the geographic context. It would be of interest to complete the model by incorporating other variables, such as employees' trust of management, role conflict and role ambiguity, and measures of performance such as service quality.
Practical implications
The results indicate that managers must use service communicative leadership and service encounter practices to influence directly employee OCB and human resource management to improve employee job satisfaction and OCB.
Originality/value
The paper provides empirical evidence about the positive effect of the OSO on employee job satisfaction and citizenship behavior in the hospitality industry.
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Citation
Varela González, J. and García Garazo, T. (2006), "Structural relationships between organizational service orientation, contact employee job satisfaction and citizenship behavior", International Journal of Service Industry Management, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/09564230610651561
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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