however, there is also empirical evidence that customerhelping increases job stress. The purpose of this paper is to bridge the gap between the conflicting consequences of customer helping. Through the qualitative and quantitative research, this paper delineates how (1) employees’feeling shame and gratitude toward the customer helping relate to job stress and job performance and (2) the effects of customer helping on emotional responses depend on employees’ mental simulation (outcome vs. process). Theresults show that feeling shame toward the customer helping leads to job stress and job performance, whereas feeling gratitude increases job performance. Moreover, the employees’ mental simulation had significant moderating effect, but only when the level of customer helping is high.
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Shameful? Grateful? : Emotional Response to Customer Helping and Its Impact on Job Stress and Job Performance