Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Abstract

Previous studies have investigated the relationship between the Five-Factor model of personality and creativity. As this model has been criticised for providing a limited account of an individual’s personality, this study considers additional personality traits that have recently been investigated in the literature as determinants of employee behaviour. Moreover, we also contribute to the existing body of literature by conducting this study in a service setting, for which we predict personality traits will exert differentiated effects on creativity when compared to other settings. Finally, while past research has focused on linear effects, this study examines the existence of non-linear effects between personality and creativity. The results indicate that personality traits apart from the Five-Factor model have an impact on creativity and that the effects of several personality traits on the creativity of frontline service employees differ from those obtained in other settings. Lastly, the findings also show that five of the personality traits have non-linear effects on creativity, and this may be a stimulus for a new stream of research in the human resources literature.     

如何提高物流咨询的服务质量

分析物流咨询服务的特点,包括知识性、异质性、客户参与性和影响重要性,总结了影响咨询服务质量的五个维度的内容,提出了相应的提高物流咨询服务质量的中长期策略。     

服务产品多营销渠道下顾客渠道选择的量化分析

在全球服务经济迅速发展的背景下,以数字化为基础、互联网为纽带的新经济革命的到来,为服务产品如酒店客房的销售从传统的单一店面销售模式走向多营销渠道销售模式提供了强有力支持。本文首先对新技术环境下酒店客房销售模式进行了介绍,主要有实体门店销售、实体店官网销售、实体旅行社及在线旅行社四种模式,并针对不同年龄段顾客就这四种销售方式的选择趋势采用多属性决策方法进行了排序,且对排序结果作了解释。酒店在进行客房预订销售时,可以根据历史入住顾客年龄段分布情况,适时合理调整酒店的营销战略。     

网络环境下图书馆读者服务工作的发展趋势与对策

传统的图书馆,参考文献收藏的多少,对图书馆服务方式通过面对面的读者借还图书,提供口头咨询为主.现代图书馆,拥有掌握和利用电子技术的水平和专业人员,获取信息和利用信息的能力,不受馆藏的限制,对图书馆的服务起着决定性的作用.图书馆的服务观念;从"读者服务"转向"协调、合作、共享".图书馆的服务形象:从热情、周到的"服务员"转变到迅速、方便的"信息导航员".     

信息服务模式及网络利用

当今的用户获取信息的渠道越来越广,这使得信息服务面临着多方面的竞争。对于从事信息服务的工作者而言,如何让信息真正有效地服务于各行各业和广大用户,以及依据什么因素来选择恰当的服务模式与推动模式的更新都是非常重要的。文章初步探讨了信息服务模式的变化,以及网络在信息服务中的利用。     

标准文献服务与科技文献服务比较研究

本文全面调研了世界范围与国内重要的科技文献共享服务成功案例,以及标准文献服务机构成功运作的案例,提出了标准文献服务与科技文献服务间存在的差距。     

A triple‐win scenario for horizontal collaboration in logistics: Determining enabling and key success factors

Horizontal collaborations emerged as a new strategic option in the logistics sector during the last decade. However, successful implementation of horizontal collaborations is far from a developed issue due to several barriers that exist or emerge when setting up such collaborative projects. This study aims at identifying the enabling factors supporting successful implementation of horizontal collaborations in the logistics sector, and in identifying key success factors that logistics service providers (LSPs) should consider. Results from a within‐ and cross‐case analysis of two horizontal collaboration projects in the contract logistics sector support the proposed theoretical framework, highlighting both enabling and key success factors of horizontal collaborations. The former refers to factors that are related to LSPs, customers, and industries, whereas the latter results in a triple‐win scenario characterised by LSP competences, trust, and environmental management orientation of successful horizontal collaboration projects.     

A context-based service matching approach towards functional reliability for industrial systems

ABSTRACT

As service-oriented computing is commonly used in industrial systems to deal with the continually changing business environment, matching processes with existing services becomes one of the most important phases in constructing, integrating and optimizing information systems. The precision of semantic service matching becomes a critical factor in ensuring the correctness of functionalities in system processes. However, the dependability of semantic service matching cannot be warranted in complex contexts. To improve semantic service matching for industrial systems, a context-based semantic service matching approach named ‘Process-Based service MatchMaker’(PBMM) is proposed in this paper. It selects the suitable services for the process from candidate services through taking the dependencies of related services process into consideration.     

The impact of sourcing enterprise system use and work process interdependence on sourcing professionals’ job outcomes

We examine sourcing professionals’ work context to conceptualize how they use sourcing enterprise systems (SESs) and to understand when SES use results in positive/negative job outcomes. We differentiate between SES use for supplier selection and supplier governance, identify sourcing professionals’ work process interdependence as a moderator for the impacts of SES use on job satisfaction, and suggest job satisfaction mediates the impacts of SES use on job performance. We conducted a field study of sourcing professionals’ SES use at one of the largest consumer product companies in the United States, which has implemented an SES to innovate its sourcing professionals’ work processes. Based on our analysis of the survey and qualitative data we collected, we found the impacts of both types of SES use (1) to be negative on job satisfaction when work process interdependence was high, (2) to be positive on job satisfaction when work process interdependence was low, and (3) to be mediated by job satisfaction for job performance. We discuss the implications of our findings for the literature at the intersection of information systems and operations management as well as for the information technology enabled innovation of sourcing processes and, more generally, complex business processes.     

公共服务等值化建设与农民工——核心制度与推进路径

户籍制度及其衍生的配套政策造成了农民工不能享有与市民同等的公共服务。然而,由于积淀在户籍制度上的次生制度太多,有的已固化为社会现实,当前取消户籍制度的社会和经济成本太高,且对农民工公共服务等值化建设无实质性利好。农民工最大的问题是无力应对市场和城市生活风险,这是他们能否长期留在城市和实现市民化的关键。就此而言,农民工公共服务等值化建设的着力点并非户籍制度改革,而在于建立和完善其保障制度。