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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 654-682Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0149206319869426
Keywords
organizational justice; emotional labor; surface acting; emotional demands-abilities fit; employee performance
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This study found that employee perceptions of unfair treatment from customers affect employee performance through the sequential mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and surface acting, with emotional demands-abilities fit moderating this process.
This paper develops and tests a process model examining the sequential mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and surface acting on the relationships between employee perceptions of unfair treatment from customers and three forms of employee performance: in-role performance, customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCBC), and customer-oriented counterproductive work behavior (CWBC). In Study 1, we found support for our model demonstrating that the relationships between customer injustice and supervisor ratings of employees' in-role performance and OCBC are each sequentially mediated first by emotional exhaustion and then by surface acting. In Study 2, using time-lagged data, we found additional support for our sequential mediation process when predicting CWBC. Moreover, we found that emotional demands-abilities fit moderated the sequential indirect effect of customer injustice on CWBC. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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