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Service with a smile: A source of emotional exhaustion or performance incentive in call‐centre employees
Author(s) -
Picard Karel,
Cossette Michel,
Morin Denis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
canadian journal of administrative sciences / revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1936-4490
pISSN - 0825-0383
DOI - 10.1002/cjas.1413
Subject(s) - neuroticism , emotional exhaustion , emotional labor , psychology , incentive , social psychology , emotional regulation , service (business) , emotional expression , burnout , developmental psychology , personality , business , clinical psychology , marketing , economics , microeconomics
Abstract This study examines the relationships between emotional labour (surface acting, deep acting, and natural expression of positive emotions) and emotional exhaustion and service performance among 215 call centre employees. Of the hypotheses concerning the relation between the three emotional regulation strategies to emotional exhaustion and to service performance, only natural expression of positive emotion is significantly related to both consequences. Results also suggest that neuroticism moderates the link between deep acting and emotional exhaustion: employees with low levels of neuroticism seem more emotionally exhausted when they use deep acting. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.