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Effect of Customer Misbehavior, Personal Tradition, and Social Support On Frontline Employees' Turnover Intention

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Increasingly fierce market competition has put forward higher requirements for the service quality of frontline employees. At the same time, the misbehavior of some customers has negative effects on frontline employees. Therefore, this study focused on the mechanism between customer misbehavior and frontline employees' turnover intention, and used Mplus 8.0 and HLM 6.08 to analyze data from 318 questionnaires. We found the following results: Customer misbehavior was positively related to employees' turnover intention, personal tradition was negatively related to employees' turnover intention, personal tradition played a moderating role in the relationship between customer misbehavior and employees' turnover intention, social support was negatively related to employees' turnover intention, and social support played a moderating role in the relationship between customer misbehavior and employees' turnover intention. Our conclusions enrich human resource management theory and provide reference for service-oriented enterprises tmprove the stability of frontline employees.

Source: Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

DOI: 10.2224/sbp.12487

Authors: Xiaona Guo, Xitao Dong, Jianpeng Fan, Lijun Liu, Ruixia Zhang

Institutions: Pingdingshan University, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Emilio Aguinaldo College

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4385952710

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