title: Manager personality, manager service quality orientation, and service climate: test of a model.
abstract: This article conceptually and empirically explores the relationships among manager personality, manager service quality orientation, and climate for customer service. Data were collected from 1,486 employees and 145 managers in grocery store departments (N = 145) to test the authors' theoretical model. Largely consistent with hypotheses, results revealed that core self-evaluations were positively related to managers' service quality orientation, even after dimensions of the Big Five model of personality were controlled, and that service quality orientation fully mediated the relationship between personality and global service climate. Implications for personality and organizational climate research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA. amy-salvaggio@utulsa.edu
authors.forename: Amy Nicole
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Salvaggio
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Lisa H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Nishii
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: Anuradha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramesh
authors.forename: Julie S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lyon
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010551:Personality; D010559:Personnel Management; D012647:Self-Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards