When Do Employees Speak up for Their Customers? A Model of Voice in a Customer Service Context

We develop a conceptual model of customer‐focused voice and test it in a hospital setting. Drawing from theory and research on voice, we find that customer orientation and job autonomy are positively associated with customer‐focused voice. In addition, consistent with social information processing t...

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Published in:Personnel psychology 2014-09, Vol.67 (3), p.637-666
Main Authors: Lam, Chak Fu, Mayer, David M.
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