Incorporating human resource management initiatives into customer services: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms |
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Authors: | Taiwen Feng Dan Wang Daniel Prajogo |
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Institution: | 1. School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi''an, China;2. School of Business and Economics, Gippsland, Monash University, Room 143 Building 5N, Northways road, Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia;3. Department of Management, Monash University, Room 7.28 Building N, Caulfield East, VIC 3145 Australia |
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Abstract: | The existing operations management literature has extensively investigated the associations between customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, how to improve customer satisfaction through employee empowerment, service reward, and service training has rarely been investigated. In this research, we tied human resource and service operations management to each other and examined the relationships among employee empowerment, service reward, service training, employee satisfaction, customer service and customer satisfaction based on empirical study of 214 Chinese manufacturing companies. Using structural equation modeling, we found that both employee empowerment and service training have significant impacts on employee satisfaction and customer service, while service reward only has significant impact on customer service. We also found that both employee satisfaction and customer service have significant impact on customer satisfaction. However, the impact of employee satisfaction on customer service is insignificant. The findings suggest that employee empowerment, service reward and service training are important considerations for operations managers to boost employee satisfaction and customer service, which in turn improve customer satisfaction. We provide empirical evidence that employee empowerment, service reward and service training play significant roles in increasing customer satisfaction in the context of manufacturing businesses. |
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Keywords: | Service reward Service training Employee satisfaction Customer service Customer satisfaction |
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