title: Fostering employee service creativity: Joint effects of customer empowering behaviors and supervisory empowering leadership.
abstract: Integrating insights from the literature on customers' central role in service and the literature on employee creativity, we offer theoretical and empirical account of how and when customer empowering behaviors can motivate employee creativity during service encounters and, subsequently, influence customer satisfaction with service experience. Using multilevel, multisource, experience sampling data from 380 hairstylists matched with 3550 customers in 118 hair salons, we found that customer empowering behaviors were positively related to employee creativity and subsequent customer satisfaction via employee state promotion focus. Results also showed that empowering behaviors from different agents function synergistically in shaping employee creativity: supervisory empowering leadership strengthened the indirect effect of customer empowering behaviors on employee creativity via state promotion focus.
authors.affiliation: School of Business, University of Connecticut.
authors.forename: Yuntao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.affiliation: College of Management, National Taiwan University.
authors.forename: Aichia
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3849-219X
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.affiliation: Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003405:Creativity; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological