Personality characteristics and salespeople’s choice of coping strategies |
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Authors: | David Strutton James R Lumpkin Lou E Pelton |
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Institution: | (1) the University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA;(2) the University of North Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | The issue of whether salespeople cope with sales stressors in ways consistent with their personality characteristics remains
largely unaddressed in the empirical literature. Should certain personality characteristics make salespeople more stress resistant,
implications for the selection of sales candidates already possessing such characteristics or for the cultivation of such
characteristics within existing salespeople could be developed. A framework is developed suggesting why salespeople with certain
personality characteristics—those high on challenge, self-determination, and involvement in self and surroundings—may employ
different coping strategies. Support for hypotheses was developed in a study that used a stratified random sample of 322 sales
organizations. Salespeople high on challenge, self-determination, and involvement were found to use more problem-focused coping
strategies.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Before entering academe, he was in sales with the Tenneco Corporation
and was president of a retailing firm in North Carolina. His research has been published in theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Macromarketing, andJournal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, among other scholarly journals. His current research interests include issues relating to sales and channels management.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in 1992. His research has appeared in theJournal of International Consumer Marketing, Developments in Marketing Science, Advances in Marketing, andHealth Marketing Quarterly, among others. His current research interests include business ethics and channels management. Prior to entering academe,
he was vice president of a marketing consulting firm in Lubbock, Texas.
He has a B.S. in chemistry, an M.B.A. in management, and received his Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Arkansas.
Before entering academe, he worked in marketing research for Phillips Petroleum Company. His primary research interests include
retail patronage theory, market segmentation, and research methodology, with recent research focused on the elderly consumer.
His research has been published in theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, The Gerontologist, Journal
of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, and other scholarly journals. |
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